The Achilles Heel of Plurality Systems
Geography and Representation in Multiparty Democracies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232484 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Calvo (0000-0001-5770-1391, University of Maryland), Judith Rodden (0000-0003-1449-8527, Stanford University), Jonathan Rodden |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 789-805 |
| Publication date | 2015-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12167 |
| OpenAlex | W1573770346 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 25 |
Building on the unfinished research program of Gudgin and Taylor (1979), we analytically derive the linkage between a party's territorial distribution of support and the basic features of its vote‐seat curve. We then demonstrate the usefulness of the corresponding empirical model with an analysis of elections in postwar Great Britain, focusing in particular on the transformation of the Liberals from a territorially concentrated to a dispersed party in the 1970s. We show that majoritarian biases increase with the number of parties, and majoritarian systems harm small parties when their vote is more dispersed than average, and large parties when their vote is more concentrated than average. Moreover, the evolving experiences of Labour and Conservatives demonstrate how a party's territorial support, and hence its expected seat premium or penalty, changes with its electoral fortunes. This model has a wide variety of applications in multiparty majoritarian democracies around the world
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Electoral Systems, Regional Resentment and the Surprising Success of Anglo-American Populism
Inequalities in place‐based representation
Budgetary Clientelism and Decentralization in Hungary and Romania
Pot and ladle
The Effects of Exposure to New Electoral Rules
Bonuses and penalties in vote to seat conversion under single-member plurality electoral rules in a cross-national perspective
National Electoral Thresholds and Disproportionality
The Burden of Election Logistics
Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems
Democratic Institutions and Subjective Well-Being
Implementing Partisan Symmetry
Partisan Gerrymandering and Political Science
Components of partisan bias originating from single-member districts in multi-party systems
Vox Populi
Electoral Reform and Trade-Offs in Representation
The role of electoral geography in the territorialization of party systems
The strategic effect of the plurality vote at the district level
Local ethno-political polarization and election violence in majoritarian vs. proportional systems
(Under What Conditions) Do Politicians Reward Their Supporters? Evidence from Kenya's Constituencies Development Fund
Seats, Votes, and the Spatial Organization of Elections
Elections in Western Europe since 1815
Electoral Distortion in New Zealand
The Vicious Cycle
Unintentional Gerrymandering
The Analysis of Distorted Representation in Two-Party Single-Member Elections
Nationwide threshold of representation
The Competitive Road to Proportional Representation
Unequal and Unequally Distributed Votes
The Relationship between Seats and Votes in Multiparty Systems
The Nationalization of Parties and Party Systems
Electoral Responsiveness and Partisan Bias in Multiparty Democracies
Manipulating maps and winning elections
Sources of partisan bias in US congressional elections
The Law of the Cubic Proportion in Election Results
The Relationship between Seats and Votes in Two-Party Systems
An integrated perspective on the three potential sources of partisan bias
Integrating and decomposing the sources of partisan bias
Empirical threshold of representation
Reformulating the Cube Law for Proportional Representation Elections
Democratic Representation and Partisan Bias in Congressional Elections
Predicting the Number of Parties
Seats and votes
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |