Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Bowler, Shaun. (Editor), Blais, Andr.̌ (Editor), Grofman, Bernard. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 13
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Political science > Philosophy.; Political science.; Social Sciences.; Political Science.; Political Philosophy.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09720-6

Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has influenced both the party politics literature (which contin...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I. Voting Strategically in Canada and Britain
• Neither Representative Nor Accountable
• Strategic Voting in the United States
• Seats to Votes Ratios in the United States
• Part II. Canada
• Party Inflation in India
• The Puzzle of Non-Duvergerian Equilibria in the United Kingdom
• Duverger<U+0019>s Law in the United States.