Rational Choice Meets the New Politics
Choosing the Scottish Parliament’s Electoral System
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6267753 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alan Convery (0000-0003-1529-6038, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author), Thomas Carl Lundberg (0000-0002-6917-790X, University of Glasgow) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 114-129 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Government and Opposition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0017-257X • E-ISSN: 1477-7053 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/gov.2017.40 |
| OpenAlex | W2756454996 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 40 |
Although there has been extensive research on electoral system choice at the national level, we know relatively little about the dynamics of deciding the rules of the game for sub-state institutions. This article examines the factors that influenced the choice of a proportional electoral system for the new Scottish Parliament in 1999. Through the use of archival sources and interviews with key participants, we challenge the conventional rational choice explanation for the adoption of the mixed-member proportional (MMP) system. Although rational considerations on the part of the Labour Party were involved in the choice of MMP, our findings suggest that, as at the national level, theories of electoral system choice need to consider normative values as well
Economics · Electoral system · Key (lock · Law and economics · Normative · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Proportional representation · Public economics · Rational choice theory (criminology · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Gender Politics and Representation · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Citizens, elections, parties
Pathologies of Rational Choice Theory
Why Are There So Many (or So Few) Electoral Reforms?
Rational choice and the structure of the environment.
An economic theory of democracy
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems
The Politics of Electoral Reform
Process Tracing
Party policy and electoral reform
Towards moderate pluralism
A Quiet Revolution
Why Did National Promise a Referendum On Electoral Reform in 1990
Party Interests and the Electoral System for the Projected Scottish Assembly
Electoral Reform in Europe since 1945
Reconceptualising Electoral Reform
Why Politicians Like Electoral Institutions
The Future Is Imagination, the Present Is Reality
Why the additional member system has won out in Scotland
Electoral System Change in the Netherlands
The Politics of Electoral Reform Abolition
It's Parties that Choose Electoral Systems (Or, Duverger's Laws Upside Down)
The Devolved Party Systems of the United Kingdom
New parliament, new politics in Scotland
The Narcissism of Small Differences
Designing the Scottish Parliament
To create or to copy? electoral systems in the German Länder
The Study of the Politics of Electoral Reform in the 1990s
Effective” Number of Parties
Party Interests, Public Opinion and Institutional Preferences
The Birth and Death of a Three-Party System
To Adopt or Not to Adopt Proportional Representation
Models of electoral system change
Strategic fools
Setting the Rules of the Game
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2023 (4) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |