Search Results - subject:"Eﬀective Number of Parties"

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

number of parties (ENP) for Laakso and Taagepera since 1979. The study elaborates the general concepts of the electoral … terms of electoral votes or parliamentary seats. This means that researchers began to use a measure called the effective …

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Measuring Electoral Competitiveness: With Application to the Indian States

Bhusana Dash, Bharatee; Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, … - 2018

interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective number of parties, the first versus second place vote margin and safe …

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Measuring electoral competitiveness : with application to the Indian states

Bhusana Dash, Bharatee; Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, … - 2018

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Measuring electoral competitiveness : with application to the Indian States

Bhusana Dash, Bharatee; Ferris, John Stephen; Winer, … - 2018

interpretation of commonly used measures such as the effective number of parties, the first versus second place vote margin and safe …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011898986

Voting behavior in Indonesia from 1999 to 2014 : religious cleavage or economic performance?

Higashikata, Takayuki; Kawamura, Koichi - 2015

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The Interpretation of the Laakso-Taagepera Effective Number of Parties.

Caulier, Jean-François - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne, Université Paris 1 … - 2011

-Taagepera effective number of parties fragmentation index. With the particular method of sampling with probability proportional to the … party sizes, we show that the Laakso-Taagepera effective number of parties is the inverse of the size biased version of the … traditional expected party size in shares. Further, we provide an axiomatic definition of the Laakso-Taagepera effective number of …

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On the measurement of Fragmentation

Caulier, Jean-François - HAL - 2010

In this paper we propose a new party-system fragmentation measure as equivalent number of parties that fully takes into account the pivotal power of parties. The novel approach we adopt in the method of construction for an index of fragmentation allows us to take advantage of the theory of...

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Voting behavior in Indonesia from 1999 to 2014 : religious cleavage or economic performance?

Higashikata, Takayuki; Kawamura, Koichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

In this study, we examine the voting behavior in Indonesian parliamentary elections from 1999 to 2014. After summarizing the changes in Indonesian parties' share of the vote from a historical standpoint, we investigate the voting behavior with simple regression models to analyze the effect of...

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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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