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Electoral Systems and Political Context: How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies
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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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Metadata
- Authors
- Moser, R. G., & Scheiner, E.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- University of California, Davis (US)
- Venue
- Cambridge University Press eBooks
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2012-09-28
- OpenAlex
- W4252921201
- Cited by
- 153
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 16.66
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Electoral Systems and Political Participation
- Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Gender Politics and Representation
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Political Theory and Democracy
- Keywords
- electoral systems, mixed electoral systems, proportional representation, single-member districts, strategic voting, party fragmentation, number of parties, women's political representation, new democracies, social diversity, voting behavior, election results
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