It's parties that choose electoral systems (or Duverger's Law upside down)
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Keywords
Elections; electoral systems; political parties; institutional equilibrium;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H10 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - General
- H79 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Other
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2005-09-29 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-HIS-2005-09-29 (Business, Economic and Financial History)
- NEP-PBE-2005-09-29 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2005-09-29 (Positive Political Economics)
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