Staying in the first league: parliamentary representation and the electoral success of small parties
Why are some small parties successful whereas others wither away? Despite the voluminous literature on parties and party families, we have a limited understanding of what explains small party success. Most studies tend to emphasize the role of social cleavages and electoral systems. Instead, we prop...
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Cambridge University Press
2015
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