Does Party-System Fragmentation Affect the Quality of Democracy?

• In Event: Fragmentation and Polarization in Industrialized Democracies

Brief Overview

Using an instrumental variable that takes advantage of as-good-as-random variation in the parties that make it to parliament, we find no evidence that the number of parties in a democracy affects a wide range of outcomes.

Authors

• Vicente Valentim, European University Institute

• Elias Dinas, Eui