Week 3 supplemental readings:
Parties and Party Systems
Austin
Ranney “Toward A More Responsible Two-Party System: A Commentary” American
Political Science Review, Vol. 45, No. 2. (Jun., 1951), pp. 488-499.
Gary
W. Cox, “Centripetal and Centrifugal Incentives in Electoral Systems,” American
Journal of Political Science, 34 (1990).
Pradeep
Chhibber; Ken Kollman, “Party Aggregation and the Number of Parties in India
and the United States,” American Political Science Review, Vol. 92, No.
2. (Jun., 1998), pp. 329-342.
Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy.
Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries (New Haven, CT:
Yale University Press, 1999), Chapters
5,8. (LEHMAN-SOCIAL WORK RESERVES JC421 .L542 1999)
Sartori, Parties and Party Systems, Cambridge [Eng.]
; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 1976. (Lehman
JF2051 .S26)
R. Taagepera and M.S. Shugart, Seats and votes: The effects and
determinants of electoral systems. New Haven:
Yale University
Press, 1989. (Lehman JF1001 .T33 1989)
Rein Taagepera;
Matthew Soberg Shugart. “Predicting the Number of Parties: A Quantitative Model
of Duverger's Mechanical Effect,”American Political Science Review, Vol.
87, No. 2. (Jun., 1993), pp. 455-464.
Scott Mainwairing and Timothy
Scully, “Party Systems in Latin America,” in Scott
Mainwairing and Timothy Scully, eds., Building Democratic Institutions:
Party Systems in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1995), pp. 1-34. (Lehman JL969.A45 B85 1995)
William
Riker. “The Two Party System and Duverger’s Law: An Essay on the History of
Political Science,” American Political Science Review, 76 (1982).
Martin
Shefter, “Party and Patronage: Germany,
England, and Italy,”
Politics and Society, 7 (1977), pp.
403-52. (Lehman H1 .P83)
Cox
and Rosenbluth. 1995. “The Structural Determinants of Electoral
Cohesiveness: England,
Japan, and the United
States,” in Structure and Policy in Japan
and the United States.
(Lehman JQ1624 .S78 1995)