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Stoll, Heather. "Ideological Space Dimensionality and the Number of Competitors" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 31, 2006 <Not Available>. 2011-03-13 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152287_index.html>

Stoll, H. , 2006-08-31 "Ideological Space Dimensionality and the Number of Competitors" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Marriott, Loews Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-03-13 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p152287_index.html

Publication Type: Proceeding Abstract: What is the relationship between the dimensionality of the ideological space in which political competition occurs and the number of parties competing? Several scholars have argued for a positive relationship: that the more salient ideological dimensions or conflicts there are in a country, the more parties that country will have. Empirical analyses have generally found support for these hypotheses. However, existing studies leave many questions unanswered on both the theoretical and empirical fronts. This paper accordingly revisits the research question. It returns to the theoretical drawing board and uses an original time series cross-sectional data set of legislative post-war elections, which includes at its core a new measure of ideological space dimensionality, to test its hypotheses. Distinguishing between the raw and the effective dimensionality, it finds that the former interacts with electoral system restrictiveness (specifically, with the proportion of seats distributed in an upper tier) to positively shape electoral fractionalization in legislative elections after controlling for other political institutional variables. However, political institutions have a larger substantive effect on the number of parties than raw dimensionality does.

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