The Measurement of Inter-Party Competition and Systemic Stability
- 1 June 1967
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in American Political Science Review
- Vol. 61 (2) , 457-467
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1953257
Abstract
The American two-party system is a constant object of study by many political scientists, yet there exists no adequate scale by which to measure inter-party competition and the stability of our two-party system. It is the purpose of this article to present a simple index by which the condition of any two-party system (national or state or foreign) can be determined in relation to its expected behavior.Keywords
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