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Electoral Systems and Political Context: How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies
Abstract
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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“Weak parties make it harder to hold politicians collectively accountable (Moser and Scheiner 2012; Kitschelt et al. 2010), and create greater uncertainty about actors ' preferences, time horizons, and commitment to democracy (Lupu and Riedl 2013; Levitsky 2018; Flores-Macías 2018; Hicken 2016).”
From Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection (2020) · cites this paper as Moser and Scheiner 2012
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Fortin‐Rittberger, J., & Rittberger, B. (2014) · European Union Politics · doi:10.1177/1465116514527179 · Cited by 117
“The effects of electoral rules are therefore context dependent (Amorim Neto and Cox, 1997; Boix, 1999; Matland, 1998; Moser and Scheiner, 2012; Odershook and Shvetsova, 1994), and the context of EP elections is different from that of national elections.”
BackgroundBernauer, J., Giger, N., & Rosset, J. (2013) · International Political Science Review · doi:10.1177/0192512113498830 · Cited by 128
Parties, Civil Society, and the Deterrence of Democratic Defection
Bernhard, M., Hicken, A., Reenock, C., & Lindberg, S. I. (2020) · Studies in Comparative International Development · doi:10.1007/s12116-019-09295-0 · Cited by 105
Representation in Context: Election Laws and Ideological Congruence Between Citizens and Governments
Powell, G. B. (2013) · Perspectives on Politics · doi:10.1017/s1537592712003635 · Cited by 104
“8 Moser and Scheiner 2012.”
Identifying Voter Preferences for Politicians' Personal Attributes: A Conjoint Experiment in Japan
Horiuchi, Y., Smith, D. M., & Yamamoto, T. (2016) · Political Science Research and Methods · doi:10.1017/psrm.2018.26 · Cited by 99
“Aware of this limitation, a few studies have taken advantage of mixed-member systems to examine observational differences in politicians’ attributes under different electoral rules while holding country-specific determinants constant (e.g., Moser and Scheiner 2012).”
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- 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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