Robert G. Moser, Ethan Scheiner

Electoral Systems and Political Context

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Electoral Systems and Political Context illustrates how political and social context conditions the effects of electoral rules. The book examines electoral behavior and outcomes in countries that use 'mixed-member' electoral systems - where voters cast one ballot for a party list under proportional representation (PR) and one for a candidate in a single member district (SMD). Based on comparisons of outcomes under the two different rules used in mixed-member systems, the book highlights how electoral systems' effects - especially strategic voting, the number of parties and women's representation - tend to be different in new democracies from what one usually sees in established democracies. Moreover, electoral systems such as SMDs are usually presumed to constrain the number of parties irrespective of the level of social diversity, but this book demonstrates that social diversity frequently shapes party fragmentation even under such restrictive rules.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781107607996
• ISBN-10: 110760799X
• Artikelnr.: 36462436

Autorenporträt

Robert G. Moser is Associate Professor of Government at the University of Texas and the author of Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia (2001). He has co-edited (with Zoltan Barany) Russian Politics (2001), Ethnic Politics after Communism (2005) and Is Democracy Exportable? (2009). His articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Electoral Studies and Post-Soviet Affairs.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: why don't electoral rules have the same effects in all
countries?; 2. When do the effects of electoral systems diverge from our
expectations?; 3. Mixed-member electoral systems: how they work and how
they work for scholars; 4. How democratic experience and party system
development condition the effects of electoral rules on disproportionality
and the number of parties: theory, measurement, and expectations; 5. How
democratic experience and party system development condition the effects of
electoral rules on disproportionality and the number of parties: what we
actually see; 6. Political context, electoral rules, and their effects on
strategic and personal voting; 7. How democratic experience and party
system development condition the effect of electoral rules on strategic
defection; 8. Social diversity, electoral rules, and the number of parties;
9. How political context shapes the effect of electoral rules on women's
representation; 10. Conclusion: why and how political context matters for
electoral system effects.