Although most new democracies have a relatively high level of party system fragmentation,
most of them experience a reduction in the number of parties over time. In Brazil, the number …

This paper argues that wasted votes in founding elections decrease when countries have a
previous democratic experience before the current democratic period. This historical …

A number of institutional and non‐institutional factors hamper electoral coordination and,
hence, increase party system fragmentation in the nominal tier of mixed electoral systems …

O objetivo deste artigo é avaliar empiricamente a competição eleitoral para o cargo de
deputado federal no Brasil e a sua dimensão regional, que se apoia nos conceitos de …

As the" Short Twentieth Century" came to an end, more and more democracies seriously
considered the possibility–often for the first time in their history-of changing their national …

Abundant research provides evidence that electoral systems have an impact on party
system fragmentation. Taking up these findings, and adopting a dynamic approach, this …

Wer wählt in welchem Kontext strategisch? Dieses Buch systematisiert erstmals die gesamte
international vergleichende Forschung zu den Determinanten strategischen Wählens bei …