The Logic of Multiparty Systems

1 Introduction -- The Logic of Multiparty Systems: An Overview of Theoretical and Empirical Problems and Results -- 2 Efficiency and Stability Concepts in Multiparty Voting -- Bargaining in Weighted Majority Voting Games, With an Application to Portfolio Distributions -- Nash Bargaining Solutions of Multiparty Bargaining Problems -- Manipulation of Voting Mechanisms -- Manipulation in a Multiparty Parliament: The Case of the Norwegian Storting -- On the Existence of Political Equilibrium in a Three-Party System with Plurality Voting -- Elections with N Voters, M Candidates and K Issues -- 3 Multipartism and Political Stability -- Bargaining Theory and Cabinet Stability in European Governments -- Multipartism -- The Competitive Consequences of Polarized Pluralism -- On the Importance of Elections and Ideology for Government Policy in a Multi-Party System -- The Political Economy of Roll-Call Voting in the ”Multi-Party” Congress of the United States -- Parties and Party Systems in Latin America -- The Stability of Party Duopoly in Multi-Party Britain -- The Geography of Party Support: Comparative Studies in Electoral Stability -- 4 Electoral System Effects -- ’Representation of the People’: Aspects of the Relationship between Electoral Systems and Party Systems in the Federal Republic of Germany and the United Kingdom -- What Kind of Electoral System for Plural Societies? India as an Example -- Political Support in Multiparty Canada: 1980–84 -- Performance of the Electoral System in Recent Canadian and British Elections: Advancing the Case for Electoral Reform -- The Logic of Plurality Voting in Multi-Party Systems: Tactical Voting in Liverpool Elections -- Determinants of the Number of Legislative Parties: Evidence from Postwar France -- Problems of and Solutions to Representation -- Thresholds for Proportional Representation: Reanalyzed and Extended -- Problems of Equity in Multiparty Representational Systems: What We Want and What We Can’t -- Party Discipline and the Power of Parties, Legislators and States -- Paradox Proof Decision Rules in Weighted Voting.