High valence parties will contest the electoral centre, but will not, in fact, position themselves at the electoral mean.
Thus, the latter method is more appropriate to appraise a party's regional electoral strength.
Here we define a party's regional strength as its relative electoral performance in a region compared to its national performance.
In the end this elaborate process has so far sustained the electoral dominance of the two national parties.
About 60 other parties also joined the electoral contest, both within and outside the major contending alliances.
A particularly sensitive issue concerns the registration of voters and the respective roles of the electoral commission and the interior ministry.
First, how do the opportunities for private gain differ in different electoral systems?
Chapter five is again a rather theoretical one because the author deals with different types of policy and policy-making, policy analysis and electoral systems.
