Party System Compactness: Measurement and Consequences

By R. Michael Alvarez, Jonathan Nagler. Political Analysis, 2004

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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• The Variance Matters: How Party Systems Represent the Preferences of Voters (2007, methodology): “Specifically, in constructing such a measure, scholars disagree about whether or not the parties’ positions should be weighted by their size (see Alvarez and Nagler 2004; Dow 2001; Kollman, Miller, and Page 1998).”