Diversity, patronage and parties: parties and party system change in Indonesia

The dissertation asks why some political systems have many parties and others only a few. Existing research on regime survival confirms that an excess of parties can generate regime instability. Because party systems affect key political outcomes, institutional engineers have sought to tweak elector...

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Main Author: Allen, Nathan Wallace
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/43738