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The politics of representation: election campaigning and proportional representation
In: Frontiers in political communications 5
Proportional representation and the constituency role in Britain
Thomas Lundberg critically examines the claim that party list-elected members of Britain's devolved assemblies are somehow 'second-class' representatives. Empirical evidence compares British representatives to their miced-member proportional (MMP) counterparts in Germany and New Zealand
Plurality rule, proportional representation, and the German Bundestag
In: CESifo working paper series 650
In: Category 2, Public choice
This paper examines the importance of electoral rules for legislators' behavior. The German electoral system includes a mechanism which assigns whether legislators are elected under the "first-past-the-post" (FPTP), or the proportional representation (PR) electoral rule. Using this institution, we identify the effect of electoral rules on legislators' behavior and disentangle whether so-called pork barrel politics are due to political climate in a country or due to the electoral rule employed. We find significant differences in committee membership, depending whether the legislator is elected though FPTP or PR. Legislators elected through FDTP system are members of committees that allows them to service their geographically based constituency. Legislators elected through PR are members of committees that service the party constituencies, which are not necessarily geographically based.
The Irish Republic and its experiment with proportional representation
In: Notre Dame Books
Reflecting all of us: the case for proportional representation
In: New democracy forum