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The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2005

Radhika Desai
Radhika Desai
Affiliation:
University of Victoria
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The Formation of National Party Systems: Federalism and Party Competition in Canada, Great Britain, India, and the United States, Pradeep K. Chhibber and Ken Kollman, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. xvi, 276.

Mining electoral data to arrive at theories about the relationship between political party performance and party system determination and electoral and governmental institutions forms the main stream of political science. And one of its most enduring puzzles is the explanation of the patterns and diversities of party systems. With the famous “Duverger's Law” about single-member plurality systems and two-party political systems forming its point of departure, political scientists have attempted to substantiate their discipline's status as a “science” by producing theories about relationships between measurable political variables.

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Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique , Volume 38 , Issue 4 , December 2005 , pp. 1076 - 1077
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© 2005 Cambridge University Press

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