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Duverger's law of plurality voting : the logic of party competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States
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- ISBN: 9780387097190
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viii, 165 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: New York ; London : Springer, 2009.
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Legislative Library, Vaughan Street | JF 2051 Duv (Text) | 36970000744435 | General Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Acknowledgments | v | ||
| 1 Introduction: Evidence for Duverger's Law from Four Countries | 1 | ||
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| 2 Voting Strategically in Canada and Britain | 13 | ||
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| 3 Neither Representative Nor Accountable: First-Past-the-Post in Britain | 27 | ||
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| 4 Strategic Voting in the USA | 47 | ||
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| 5 Mechanical Effects of Duverger's Law in the USA | 65 | ||
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| 6 Canada: The Puzzle of Local Three-Party Competition | 83 | ||
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| 7 Party Inflation in India: Why Has a Multiparty Format Prevailed in the National Party System? | 97 | ||
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| 8 Does the United Kingdom Obey Duverger's Law? | 115 | ||
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| 9 The United States: A Case of Duvergerian Equilibrium | 135 | ||
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| References | 147 | ||
| Index | 159 | ||
| About the Editors and Contributors | 163 |
