An earlier version of this article was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, New York, l–t September 1994. We are grateful to Bernard Cantin for his important contribution as a research assistant. We also wish to thank André Blais, Andrew F. Cooper, Stéphane Dion, Stephen D. Krasner, Pierre Martin, Richard Nadeau, Cranford Pratt, and three anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on previous drafts. This research project was supported by grants from the Fonds FCAR (Quebec) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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