Electoral Systems
A Primer for Decision Makers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6286715 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Donald L Horowitz (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 115-127 |
| Publication date | 2003-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of democracy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/jod.2003.0078 |
| OpenAlex | W2149985008 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 63 |
| References cited | 8 |
Electoral systems do not simply reflect voter preferences, social cleavages, or the political party configuration of a given society. All electoral systems shape and reshape these features. The choice of one electoral system or another involves a decision about what goals decision-makers wish to foster. The present article enumerates six possible goals of electoral systems and then explains how various systems foster or derogate from these goals. In all cases of electoral-system choice, there are tradeoffs. A system may fulfill one objective but make it difficult to attain another. Clarity of objective and attention to the details of system choice are, therefore, necessary
CLARITY · Economics · Electoral system · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law
Ethnic Politics and Political Violence in Post-2001 Afghanistan
Electoral Systems and Political Context
Going to extremes
The expressive power of voting rules
Ethnic practice in electoral politics
Ethnic mobilization and the impact of proportional and majoritarian electoral rules on voting behaviour
Managing ethno-national conflict
Mobilization and Conflict in Multiethnic States
A multiplicative process for generating the rank-order distribution of UK election results
The Ethnification of Politics and the Galvanization of Fear
Sectarianism and Recognition in Iraq
The Shift of Indonesian Political Culture from Moral Legitimacy to Capital Legitimacy
Set up to fail
Ethnic Composition and Electoral System Design
Democratic Transition and Electoral Design in Plural Societies
Electoral System Reform in Lebanon
Exploring the Impact of Reserved Seat Design on the Quality of Minority Representation
Non-discriminatory Rules and Ethnic Representation
Multiracialism engineered
Multi‐Ethnic Parties in B osnia‐ H erzegovina
Building Democratic States after Conflict
Europeanization and Collective Rationality in Minority Voting
A “Selection Model” of Political Representation
Faillite de l’Etat et administration de l’espace public politique par les « jeunes patriotes » en Cote d’Ivoire
Domestic politics and the power to punish
The dataset of Political Agreements in Internal Conflicts (Paic)
The merits of Neo-Downsian modeling of the alternative vote
Orchestrating silence, winning the votes
Apportionment when seats are allocated in lots. The D’Hondt method case and political implications
The Elections to Nonterritorial Autonomies of Central and South Eastern Europe
Where have all the parties gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the alternative vote – yet again
The 'Sociological Laws' of Maurice Duverger
Not Their President? An Analysis of the Elections of Željko Komšić as the Croat Member of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Complex Power-sharing and the Centrality of Territorial Self-governance in Contemporary Conflict Settlements
Representative justice in the European normative framework and tensions with the national political discourses
Crafting Political Institutions in Africa
Electoral Systems Today
What Democracy Do We Want? The Problematic Focus on the Median Voter
Do Multicultural Democracies Really Require PR? Counterevidence from Switzerland
How to Solve the Dilemma of Power Sharing? Formal and Informal Patterns of Representation in the Swiss Multilingual Cantons
Exploring Electoral Discrimination Through an Ethics of Office Accountability
Democratic Theory and Practice in Deeply Divided Societies
When is Fiscal Decentralization Good for Governance
Conflict Resolution between Power Sharing and Power Dividing, or Beyond
Deliberative Democracy, the Public Interest and the Consociational Model
Measuring parties’ ethnic appeals in democracies
Radicalizing electoral system effects on support for nationalist hardliners inSerbia
Decentralisation, Governance and the Structure of Local Political Institutions
An institutional remedy for ethnic patronage politics
Institutional, societal, and economic determinants of party system size
Constitutional Design for Divided Societies
Accountability or Representation? How Electoral Systems Promote Public Trust in African Legislatures
Do people want a ‘fairer’ electoral system? An experimental study in four countries
Four ways to avoid centripetal effects. How political actors escape institutional incentives in divided societies
Citizen endorsement of contested peace settlements
Citizens’ Perceptions of Government Responsiveness in Africa
The Limits of Electoral Engineering in Divided Societies
Electoral Institutions and Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Low-Information Voting
Crisis of governance in South Sudan
Denigrating democracy
Ethnicity and electoral manipulation in Russia
Representation, minorities and electoral reform
| Unique citing works | 63 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,86 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 62 |