TY - BOOK AU - Lijphart,Arend AU - Aitkin,Don TI - Electoral systems and party systems: a study of twenty-seven democracies, 1945-1990 T2 - Comparative European politics SN - 0198280548 AV - JF1001 .L54 1995 U1 - 324.6/3 20 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Elections KW - Political parties KW - Comparative government KW - fast KW - Eleicoes KW - larpcal KW - Partidos politicos KW - Democracia KW - �Elections KW - ram KW - Gouvernement (science politique) KW - ELECTIONS KW - unbist KW - POLITICAL PARTIES KW - ELECTION LAW KW - COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS N1 - "First published 1994. First issued in paperback 1995"--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-203) and index; Goals and methods -- Electoral systems -- Disproportionality, multipartism, and majority victories -- Changes in election rules between systems in the same country -- Bivariate and multivariate analyses -- Four other potential explanations -- Electoral engineering -- Indices of disproportionality and party system characteristics ER -