Perspectives on the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232772 |
|---|---|
| Authors | B Grofman (0000-0002-2801-3351, Center for the Study of Democracy, School of Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 523-540 |
| Publication date | 2016-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-020614-092344 |
| OpenAlex | W2303211294 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 72 |
This article considers the potential to use knowledge of expected electoral system effects to engage in electoral engineering. The review focuses on contributions made in the past dozen or so years and is limited to five specific questions: How do electoral systems affect (a) the proportionality of seats–votes relationships, (b) party proliferation, (c) the ideological nature of party competition, (d) voter turnout, and (e) the degree of match between the preferences of citizens and the policy choices of the government
Competition (biology · Democracy · Dozen · Electoral geography · Electoral system · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proportional representation · Proportionality (law · Sociology · Voter turnout · Voting · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The Political Communication Tactics of the National Democratic Party (NasDem) for Winning the Legislative Election
Effects of Electoral System Change on the Partisan Bias of Electoral Reformers
Why Do Non‐Resident Citizens Get Elected? Candidates' Electoral Success in Ecuadorian Extraterritorial Districts
Territorial self-governance and proportional representation
Electoral Engineering in the Russian Regions (2003–2017)
Are Canadian Voting System Reform “Trade-Offs” Really Trade-Offs? Operationalizing Voting System Values and Assessing the Evidence
Electoral volatility and political finance regulation in Colombia
What determines preferences for an electoral system? Evidence from a binding referendum
Partisan districting and the adoption of proportional representation
Disproportional Threat
Designing Electoral Districts for Proportional Representation Systems
Do We Need Taagepera’s Quantitatively Predictive Logical Models in Political Science? Evidence from Polish Local Elections
Incentivized choice in large-scale voting experiments
Political mobilisation and socioeconomic inequality in policy congruence
The Impact of Judicial Selection Method on State Supreme Court Justice Ideology
Realism and Responsible Parties
Vox Populi
Does Changing an Electoral System to a Mixed System (Really) Affect Voter Turnout and the Party System
Mixed‐Member Electoral Systems
Electoral Systems and Political Context
Making Votes Count
Electoral Systems and Party Systems
Electoral Malpractice
A Unified Theory of Party Competition
Predicting Party Sizes
The political consequences of electoral laws
Electoral Engineering
Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies since 1945
Social Choice and Individual Values
Electoral Authoritarianism
Minority Rules
Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-Communist Democracies
Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote
Finding the Threshold of Exclusion for all single seat and multi-seat scoring rules
The economic effects of constitutions
Electoral Systems and Political Context
Electoral Systems and Turnout
The Laakso-Taagepera Index in A Mean and Variance Framework
A fully general index of political competition
Replacement in the U.S. House
Election Inversions, Coalitions and Proportional Representation
STV's place in the family of electoral systems
The Paradox of Proportional Representation
How many political parties are there, really? A new measure of the ideologically cognizable number of parties/party groupings
Turnout and the (effective) number of parties at the national and district levels
Modeling the electoral dynamics of party polarization in two-party legislatures
Elections Without Democracy
Thresholds and Payoffs in List Systems of Proportional Representation
Thresholds of Representation and Thresholds of Exclusion
Effective” Number of Parties
Rehabilitating Duverger’s Theory
Electoral Systems and Electoral Misconduct
What Affects Voter Turnout
Downs and Two-Party Convergence
Are Voters Equal under Proportional Representation
Ideological Congruence and Electoral Institutions
The Electoral Sweet Spot
The Theoretical Limits of Maximum Distortion
Uncle Wuffle’s Reflections on Political Science Methodology
Reflections on Academia
Vote Au Pluriel
Who's favored by evaluative voting? An experiment conducted during the 2012 French presidential election
A taxonomy of runoff methods
Incentives to cultivate a personal vote
Election and party system effects on policy representation
How the world votes
Comparisons among electoral systems
Proportionality, disproportionality and electoral systems
Manipulating electoral laws in Singapore
Democratic Electoral Systems around the world, 1946-2011
A note of caution in interpreting the threshold of exclusion
Democratic electoral systems around the world, 1946-2000
Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,25 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |