Bordignon, Massimo; Monticini, Andrea - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 1, pp. 322-325
We test the effect of an important electoral reform implemented in Italy from 1993 to 2001, that moved the system for electing the Parliament from purely proportional to a plurality rule (for 75% of the seats). We do not find any effect on either the number of parties or the stability of...