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, André (Editor), Grofman, Bernard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 13
• Subjects: Political science.; Comparative politics.; Political philosophy.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Political Philosophy.; Comparative Politics.

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: Evidence for Duverger's Law from Four Countries
• Voting Strategically in Canada and Britain
• Neither Representative nor Accountable: First-Past-the-Post in Britain
• Strategic Voting in the US
• Mechanical Effects of Duverger’s Law in the United States
• Canada: The Puzzle of Local Three-Party Competition
• Party Inflation in India: Why Has a Multi-Party Format Prevailed in the National Party System?
• Does the United Kingdom Obey Duverger's Law?
• The United States: A Case of Duvergerian Equilibrium.