Decades ago, Laakso and Taagepera developed a measure for effective number of parties, using data for Europe in the mid-20th century. Since, then, that measure (or similar ones, like Golosov's) has been used to study contemporary (post-1970s) political systems. But has anyone applied this systematically to early 20th century Latin American (or other regions)? Besides Coppedge (1998) I can't find any. I'm trying to dig through Google Scholar recommendations, but all of them seem to be measures for contemporary studies.
Hi, Miguel. As you know Golosov's work on classification of the world’s democratic party systems is based on elections held from 1792 to 2009. What about approaching him directly? His e-mail is [email protected]
I didn't know that, thanks. I was only familiar with his improvement on Laakso and Tagepera's measure. I'll look it up and send him an email, thanks!
il numero dei partiti America ln America latina è mutevole.meglio sarebbe studiare i flussi elettorali,le varie forme di governo che si sono succedute nei vari paesi,le influenza straniere .
Thanks. I'm aware that volatility is high (if I understood your Italian correctly). My question is simply whether someone has published the dataset. I am preparing to calculate the dataset myself for another project, and was wondering if it was worth publishing as a research note (if the dataset is not previously available).
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