Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others

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  2006

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  American Political Science Review

• Publication date

  2006-05-01

• Fields of study

  Economics, Political Science

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  DOI 10.1017/S0003055406062083
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