Titlebook: Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters; Gianfranco Baldini,Adriano Pappalardo Book 2009 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmil

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Systemic Consequences, Past and Futuref no small consequence for the laws themselves, for the prospects of political engineering and for the theory and the practice of democratic representation. The following pages will focus on the salient facets of these consequences and the new challenges they pose to the working of electoral rules.

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1850-0t and dependent variables. This will in turn set the appropriate context within which to verify whether, and to what extent, predicted effects have materialized, and/or have varied, in our sample of 21 democracies through the post-war period.

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Mixed-member Systemseed, two of the leading experts on the subject have gone so far as to say that the drive towards ‘mixed’ systems ‘holds out the promise of being . electoral reform of the 21st century’ (Shugart and Wattenberg, 2001a: xxi). According to the classification criteria used by Golder (2005: 114), as many

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Electoral Rules: How Effective and Whylitics’. This chapter, and the next two, will introduce, discuss and amend the theoretical literature on such ‘manipulations’. More to the point, we will focus on the predicted effects of electoral systems and on the related conditions, as well as on the operationalization of the relevant independen

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The French 2RS: Suited for Comparative Research?lectoral formula and the same district magnitude. Isomorphism, however does not imply the same mechanics and outcomes, at least as far as the 2RS legislative version is concerned. Since the latter is the only relevant one for our purposes (i.e. testing Duverger’s propositions),. the topic requires a

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Redesigning Cases and Indicatorsf empirical data. Most quoted information and data come from the main available theoretical contributions, namely Duverger, Cox and Sartori, whose works also provide model qualitative comparative tests of electoral rules’ effects. While we highly value the latter, our focus here will be a systematic