书目名称 | Duverger‘s Law of Plurality Voting | 副标题 | The Logic of Party C | 编辑 | Shaun Bowler,André‘Blais,Bernard Grofman | 视频video | | 概述 | International coverage of the four major examples of plurality voting: U.S., U.K., Canada, India.Rigorous comparative analysis, with emphasis on both theoretical and practical implications.Prolific ed | 丛书名称 | Studies in Public Choice | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | .Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has been very influential in both the party politics literature (which continues to make use of his typology of party organization) and in the electoral systems literature. His chief contributions there deal with what have come to be called in his honor Duverger’s Law and Duverger’s Hypothesis. The first argues that countries with plurality-based electoral methods will tend to become two-party systems; the second argues that countries using proportional representation (PR) methods will tend to become multi-party systems. Duverger also identifies specific mechanisms that will produce these effects, conventionally referred to as “mechanical effects”, and “psychological effects”. However, while Duverger’s Hypothesis concerning the link between PR and multipartism is now widely accepted; the empirical evidence that plurality voting results in two-party systems is remarkably weak—with the U.S. the most notable exception...The chapters | 出版日期 | Book 2009 | 关键词 | Duverger‘s Hypothesis; Duverger‘s Law; Electoral; Electoral System; Multi-Party System; Party Politics; Pa | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-09720-6 | isbn_softcover | 978-1-4419-1885-7 | isbn_ebook | 978-0-387-09720-6Series ISSN 0924-4700 Series E-ISSN 2731-5258 | issn_series | 0924-4700 | copyright | Springer-Verlag New York 2009 |
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