Encyclopaedia Britannica entry on Duverger's law, the political science theory connecting plurality electoral systems to two-party outcomes and proportional systems to multi-party outcomes.
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PublisherEncyclopaedia Britannica
URLhttps://www.britannica.com/topic/Duvergers-law
Source Typeencyclopedia
Reliability Tier1
Encyclopaedia Britannica: a professionally edited, editorially reviewed general reference encyclopedia, the same tier already used for this atlas's other Britannica citations. Direct render blocked (HTTP 403) during verification; its attribution to Maurice Duverger's 1951 Les partis politiques and its statement of the mechanical and psychological effects is corroborated by Wikipedia's Duverger's law article and by Britannica's own separate Maurice Duverger biography, both checked the same day. Sources
Duverger's Law (Britannica)
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- Political Mechanisms, 8 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 connected, 1 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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