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Electoral Systems and Political Context

Electoral Systems and Political Context

Moser, Robert G.
Scheiner, Ethan

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1107025427
ISBN13: 9781107025424
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Sep 28 2012
Pages: 304
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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