[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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