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    This document summarizes a 1979 academic article titled "The 'Effective' Number of Parties: A Measure with Application to West Europe" published in Comparative Political Studies. The article proposes a new method for measuring the number of effective parties in a political system using a formula that accounts for the relative size and distribution of votes among parties. It applies this measure to analyze party systems in Western European countries. The article has been cited over 1,688 times since its publication and examined over 4,758 times.

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    The "Effective" number of parties: a measure with application to West Europe

    Article  in  Comparative Political Studies · January 1979


    DOI: 10.1177/001041407901200101

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