[EM] Simulation of Duverger's Law

Raph Frank raphfrk at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 12:26:46 PDT 2008


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 7:54 PM, Kristofer Munsterhjelm
<km-elmet at broadpark.no> wrote:
> Thus, while in majority governments, the largest party gets the PM (and that
> may happen for minority governments, too), for some minority governments, a
> smaller party of the coalition gets the PM (in exchange for it staying in
> the coalition).

I guess it depends on political culture.  It does seem in Canada that
they tend to have consistent minority governments.  The effect is that
it is a plurality system.

Actually, it was probably a false impression on my part.



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