The Logic of Multiparty Systems (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987)

What determines the number of political parties in a democracy? Electoral rules certainly influence the incentives to create and maintain parties. However, a society's political culture can maintain parties despite electoral rules that give them poor prospects of success. Thus, comparing the number of parties and differences in electoral rules across countries cannot clearly test the effect of the electoral rules. A better test would examine a society with a fairly continuous political culture, but a change in electoral rules. Postwar France is such a society. While the basic social order has not changed, there was a drastic change in the electoral system in 1958, which theory implies would reduce the number of parties. Thus we can test the hypothesis that the number of parties fell with the change in electoral system. We can also calculate an " equivalent number of parties. to see how closely France approached a two - party system under the new regime. The first section describes the electoral rules under the Fourth and Fifth Republics. The second section develops a model that indicates how the change in electoral rules should have affected the incentives for multiple parties. The third section tests the hypothesis that the number of parties fell from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic. 1. Electoral Rules In the French Fourth Republic (1945 - 1958) political parties existed largely to serve the direct interests of their members."

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	International Studies in Economics and Econometrics, 17
Release date:	September 2011
First published:	1987
Editors:	M.J. Holler
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	446
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1987
ISBN-13:	978-9401081146
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Promotions
LSN:	940108114X
Barcode:	9789401081146

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!