Why electoral reform might improve representation and why it might make it worse
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9783838 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric Guntermann (0000-0003-4877-0963, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 62 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 56-76 |
| Publication date | 2019-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4840 • E-ISSN: 1754-7121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/capa.12309 |
| OpenAlex | W2911580435 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 23 |
The debate over electoral reform has largely focused on representation in Parliament. However, the government largely controls policy‐making in parliamentary systems like Canada. This article shows that a more proportional system would increase the likelihood of coalitions. Because the dominant approach to studying representation in government, ideological congruence, suggests that reforming the electoral system would make no change to the level of representation, this article focuses instead on the representation of party preferences. It shows that multi‐party cabinets, common under proportional systems, involve a trade‐off between including more citizens’ preferred parties in government, while reducing the overall level of party preference representation
Congruence (geometry · Democracy · Economics · Electoral system · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Microeconomics · Parliament · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Preference · Proportional representation · Public economics · Representation (politics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Political Systems and Governance · Psychology · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Psychology
Follow the Leader?
Elections, Parties, Democracy
Political Choice in Britain
Cross‐National Analyses of Satisfaction with Democracy and Ideological Congruence
An economic theory of democracy
Election Laws, Disproportionality and Median Correspondence
Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy
Winning, Losing and Satisfaction with Democracy
Linking Party Preferences and the Composition of Government
Is the Left-Right Scale a Valid Measure of Ideology
Election outcomes, legislative representation, and satisfaction with democracy
Re‐evaluating the relationship between electoral rules and ideological congruence
Revisiting the ideological congruence controversy
The Ideological Congruence Controversy
The Forgotten Side of Partisanship
Does Proportional Representation Foster Closer Congruence Between Citizens and Policy Makers
L'impact mécanique du vote alternatif au Canada
Ideological Congruence and Electoral Institutions
Election Laws and Representative Governments
A Theory of Coalition Formation
A Method of Scaling with Applications to the 1968 and 1972 Presidential Elections
Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |