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List of Contents Volume 17 Number 1 Obituary Disproportionality Indexes and Robustness of Proportional Allocation Methods Aline Pennisi Party Competition and Piebiscitary Politics in Austria Wolfgang C Miller Straightforward and Strategic Voting in the Elections for the Swiss Council of States in 1995 Hanspeter Kriesi \ Spatial Analysis of the 1989 Chilean Presidential Election Jay K Dow rhe Referendum-Election Nexus: an Aggregate Analysis of Norwegian Voting Behaviour Tor Midtbo and Kjell Hines The Rise of a Third Party in South Korea: the Unification National Party in the 1992 National Assembly Election Won-Taek Kang Patterns of Voting Choice in Multimember Districts: the Case of English Local Elections Colin Rallings, Michael Thrasher and Christine Gunter Notes on Recent Elections The 1997 Elections in Pakistan VYohbammad Waseem The Canadian Federal Election of 1997 Lawrence LeDuc Book Notes National Elections Volume 17 Number 2 Special Issue: Voting and Elections in Post-Communist States Guest Editors: Jon H. Pammett (Department of Political Science, Carleton University) and Joan DeBardeleben (Director of the Institute of Central East-European and Russian Area Studies, Carleton University) 143 Introduction Jon H. Pammett and Joan DeBardeleben The Electoral Connection and Democratic Consolidation Raymond M. Duch The Russian 1996 Presidential Election: Referendum on Democracy or a Personality Contest? Arthur H. Miller, William M. Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli Political Values Underlying Partisan Cleavages in Former Communist Countries William L. Miller and Stephen White Negative and Positive Party Identification in Post-Communist Countries Richard Rose and William Mishler Political Party Development in Divided Societies: the Case of Ukraine Vicki L. Hesli, William M. Reisinger and Arthur H. Miller Notes on Recent Elections Hungarian Parliamentary Elections, May 1998 B. Fowler Guide to Journal Articles National Elections Volume 17 Number 3 Special Issue in Honour of Donald E. Stokes Guest Editor: Herbert F. Weisberg (Obio State University) Essays in Honor of Donald E. Stokes Herbert F. Weisberg Solving the Paradox of Nonconvergence: Valence, Position, and Direction in Democratic Politics Stuart Elaine Macdonald and George Rabinowitz Electoral Continuity and Change, 1868-1996 Larry M. Bartels Establishing Representation in Post-Soviet Societies: Change in Mass and Elite Attitudes Toward Democracy and the Market, 1992-1995 Arthur H. Miller, William M. Reisinger and Vicki L. Hesli Constituency Influence and Representation Susan C. Stokes Nonlinear Models of Electoral Change: the Implications of Political Time and Chaos Theory for the Study of Mass Political Behavior Herbert F. Weisberg Guide to Journal Articles National Elections Volume 17 Number 4 Effective Magnitude and Effective Threshold Rein Taagepera Nationwide Inclusion and Exclusion Thresholds of Representation Rein Taagepera 1V Research Note Varc Hooghe and Koen Pelleriaux Compulsory Voting in Belgium: a Reply to Hooghe and Pelleriaux Lieven De Winter and Joban Ackaert Electoral Engineering in Chile: the Electoral System and Limited Democracy Gideon Rabat and Mario Sznajder Winning at the Polls and in the Polls: the Incumbency Advantage in Surveys of U.S. House Voters Franco Mattei The Impact of Electoral Reform at the Local Level in Africa: the Case of Senegal’s 1996 Local Elections Richard Vengroff and Momar Ndiaye Mexicans React to Electoral Fraud and Political Corruption: an Assessment of Public Opinion and Voting Behavior James A. McCann and Jorge I. Dominguez A Leadership Selection Index for Multi-Ballot Political Party Conventions in Canada Raj S. Chari and Gustavo A. Arteca Notes on Recent Elections The ICORE-Collection of Election Studies to National Parliaments in Europe Ekkebard Mochmann and Ingvill C. Oedegaard Thailand’s Recent Electoral Reforms David Murray The French General Election of 25 May-1 June 1997 D.B. Goldey Norway: The Storting Election of September 15, 1997 Henry Valen The Polish General Election of 1997 Kenneth Ka-Lok Chan The Irish General and Presidential Elections of 1997 Michael Laver Tinkering with Convention: Voluntary Voting at Australia’s 1997 Constitutional Convention Election Graeme Orr The South Korean Presidential Election, 1997 Peter Morriss The Costa Rican General Elections of 1 February 1998 Bruce M. Wilson Guide to Journal Articles National Elections