Author: Thomas GschwendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Party affiliation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Strategic Voting in Mixed Electoral Systems
Author: Thomas GschwendPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Party affiliation
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Mixed Electoral Systems
Author: F. FerraraPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403978859
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Using election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll-call data from many mixed systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects party strategy, voting behaviour, legislative cohesion and overall structure of partisan competition.
The Many Faces of Strategic Voting
Author: John H AldrichPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472901125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.
Ticket Splitting and Strategic Voting in Mixed Electoral Systems
Author: Thomas GschwendMixed-member Electoral Systems
Author: Matthew Soberg ShugartPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019925768X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 681
Book Description
In the view of many electoral reformers, mixed-member systems offer the best of the traditional British single-seat system and PR systems. This book evaluates why the systems have appealed to many countries, and how well expectations have been met.
Electoral System Design
Author: Andrew ReynoldsPublisher: Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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Electoral Systems and Political Context
Author: Robert G. MoserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107025427
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules.
Making Votes Count
Author: Gary W. CoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521585279
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.
The Handbook of Electoral System Choice
Author: J. ColomerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230522742
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
The topic of electoral reform is an extremely timely one. The accelerated expansion of the number of new democracies in the world generates increasing demand for advice on the choice of electoral rules; at the same time, a new reformism in well established democracies seeks new formulae favouring both more representative institutions and more accountable rulers. The Handbook of Electoral System Choice addresses the theoretical and comparative issues of electoral reform in relation to democratization, political strategies in established democracies and the relative performance of different electoral systems. Case studies on virtually every major democracy or democratizing country in the world are included.
Electoral Systems and Political Context
Author: Robert G. MoserPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139577034
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
Electoral Systems and Political Context illustrates how political and social context conditions the effects of electoral rules. The book examines electoral behavior and outcomes in countries that use 'mixed-member' electoral systems – where voters cast one ballot for a party list under proportional representation (PR) and one for a candidate in a single member district (SMD). Based on comparisons of outcomes under the two different rules used in mixed-member systems, the book highlights how electoral systems' effects – especially strategic voting, the number of parties and women's representation – tend to be different in new democracies from what one usually sees in established democracies. Moreover, electoral systems such as SMDs are usually presumed to constrain the number of parties irrespective of the level of social diversity, but this book demonstrates that social diversity frequently shapes party fragmentation even under such restrictive rules.