Pappi, Franz Urban; Eckstein, Gabriele - In: Public Choice 97 (1998) 3, pp. 229-55
How should party preferences of voters in a multiparty system be measured, compared and aggregated? The authors use city block metric of distances between the pairwise comparisons of the five German parties (1995 survey data for West and East Germany). Neither in West nor in East Germany, a...