Duverger's Law of Plurality Voting The Logic of Party Competition in
Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has influenced bot
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Bernard Grofman
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André Blais
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Shaun Bowler
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Duverger’s Law of Plurality Voting The Logic of Party Competition in Canada, India, the United Kingdom and the United States
Editors Bernard Grofman School of Social Sciences University of California, Irvine Irvine, CA 92697, USA [email protected]
André Blais Department of Political Science University of Montréal Montréal QC H3T 1N8 Canada [email protected]
Shaun Bowler Department of Political Science University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521, USA [email protected]
ISSN: 0924-4700 ISBN: 978-0-387-09719-0 e-ISBN: 978-0-387-09720-6 DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-09720-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008943988 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2009 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper springer.com
Acknowledgments
The editors would like to thank the financial support of the Canadian embassy via the Canadian Studies Grant Programme. They would also like to thank both the Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine and the Université de Montréal, Canada for support in hosting the conferences at which these papers were first presented. Professor Grofman’s participation in the project was partially funded by the Jack W. Peltason Bren Foundation Endowed Chair at UCI. The editors would also like to thank participants in the conferences in Irvine, California and Montreal, Quebec for their helpful comments, suggestions and encouragement. Finally, the editors would also like to thank Gillian Greenough and Springer publishing for all their work in helping this volume to completion.
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Acknowledgments .......................................................................................... 1
Introduction: Evidence for Duverger’s Law from Four Countries ....................................................................... Bernard Grofman, Shaun Bowler, and André Blais
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Voting Strategically in Canada and Britain .......................................... André Blais, Eugénie Dostie-Goulet, and Marc André Bodet
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Neither Representative Nor Accountable: First-Past-the-Post in Britain.................................................................. John Curtice
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Strategic Voting in the USA ...............................
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