Party-system Fragmentation and Quality of Democracy

• In Event: Electoral and Policy Consequences of Party Competition

Brief Overview

Using a new instrument that exploits as-good-as-random variation in the number of parties just above electoral thresholds to parliamentary representation, we show that the number of parties in a polity has no effect on the quality of democracy.

Authors

• Vicente Valentim, European University Institute (EUI)

• Elias Dinas, EUI

• Morgan Le Corre Juratic, European University Institute

• Pedro Riera, University Carlos III of Madrid