Territory and electoral rules in post-communist democracies
By: Daniel Bochsler
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
ISBN-13: 9780230248274
Description: "The book extends research on the territorial structure of party systems (party nationalisation) to 20 post-communist democracies. It explains party nationalisation as a consequence of ethnically oriented politics, and shows how party nationalisation can increase our understanding of electoral systems"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Electoral systems and party systems in the new European democracies; title: The puzzle of electoral systems' impact in post-communist democracies; title: How to measure party nationalisation; title: Explaining the nationalisation of party systems in Central and Eastern Europe; title: How party systems develop in mixed electoral systems; title: Counting votes and places : the joint effect of electoral rules and territory; title: Conclusion: An institutional model to predict the number of parties in Central and Eastern Europe .