Abstract
In this symposium Mogens Pedersen argues against measuring party system change by comparing static measures of “fractionalization, ” and proposes a measure based on changes in party strength from time 1 to time 2. Shankar Bose proposes a related measure of party system change that combines changes in strength with changes in party continuity over time. This article compares their measures as applied to data from ten party-systems.
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