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The impact of using proportional representation system on the fragmentation of the party system in Algeria : applied to the elections of the National People's Assembly : 1997-2017

Mahgoub, Ali Mahmoud - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 7 (2022) 4, pp. 317-333

exacerbation of the Algerian party system's fragmentation, compared to other factors. Design/methodology/approach The essence of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013413528

The impact of using proportional representation system on the fragmentation of the party system in Algeria. Applied to the elections of the National People's Assembly (1997-2017)

Mahgoub, Ali Mahmoud - In: Review of Economics and Political Science (REPS) 7 (2022) 4, pp. 317-333

exacerbation of the Algerian party system's fragmentation, compared to other factors. Design/methodology/approach The essence of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015394419

The effective number of relevant parties : how voting power improves Laakso-Taagepera’s index

Caulier, Jean-François; Dumont, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005

This paper proposes a new method to evaluate the number of rel- evant parties in an assembly. The most widespread indicator of frag- mentation used in comparative politics is the ‘Eﬀective Number of Par- ties’(ENP), designed by Laakso and Taagepera (1979). Taking both the number of parties...

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