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Territory and electoral rules in post-communist democracies
"The book extends research on the territorial structure of party systems (party nationalisation) to 20 post-communist democracies. It explains party nationalisation as a consequence of ethnically oriented politics, and shows how party nationalisation can increase our understanding of electoral systems"--
Balancing district and party seats: The arithmetic of mixed-member proportional electoral systems
In: Electoral studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy, Band 81, S. 102557
ISSN: 1873-6890
A poisonous cocktail: ethnic quotas, liberal voting rights and the democracy problem
In: Democratization, Band 30, Heft 3, S. 501-520
ISSN: 1743-890X
Checkmate? Corporate Power-Sharing, Liberal Voting Rights and the Kosovo Supreme Court
In: Ethnopolitics, Band 22, Heft 5, S. 589-605
ISSN: 1744-9065
Measures of vote-seat disproportionality for incomplete data
In: Party politics: an international journal for the study of political parties and political organizations, Band 28, Heft 1, S. 174-183
ISSN: 1460-3683
Measures of the proportionality of distributions are used across disciplines. 'Disproportionality indices' represent an application in politics, comparing the seat allocation in parliaments to the votes expressed for political parties. Disproportionality in elections is particularly high when many votes are expressed for parties not entering parliament; in some elections such 'wasted votes' add up to two-digit vote percentages. However, 'wasted votes' for small parties below the electoral threshold, as well as votes for non-partisan candidates, are often not listed in detail in election statistics, and are instead lumped together in residual categories such as 'Others' or 'Independents'. This can hide major discrepancies between vote and seat distributions. This risks introducing systematic bias into the analysis of elections. This paper discusses several theoretically based methods to estimate indices of disproportionality for incomplete data, based on different theoretical scenarios concerning the distribution of votes and seats, and inspired by Taagepera's method of 'logical boundaries'. Empirical tests, relying on a dataset of 735 parliamentary elections worldwide, show that residual categories substantially affect indices of disproportionality. Several methods can considerably improve the measurement validity compared to the frequently used 'naive' procedures.
Four ways to avoid centripetal effects: how political actors escape institutional incentives in divided societies
In: Democratization, Band 27, Heft 8, S. 1458-1476
ISSN: 1743-890X
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Duverger and the territory: explaining deviations from the two-party-competition-law
In: Journal of elections, public opinion and parties, Band 32, Heft 3, S. 501-520
ISSN: 1745-7297
Bottom-up renewal of the Swiss party system
In: Regional & federal studies, Band 29, Heft 3, S. 381-404
ISSN: 1743-9434
The strategic effect of the plurality vote at the district level
In: Electoral studies: an international journal on voting and electoral systems and strategy, Band 47, S. 94-112
ISSN: 1873-6890
The strategic effect of the plurality vote at the district level
In: Electoral studies: an international journal
ISSN: 0261-3794
BENDING THE RULES: ELECTORAL STRATEGIES UNDER MIXED ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
In: Representation, Band 51, Heft 2, S. 261-267
ISSN: 1749-4001
WHICH MIXED-MEMBER PROPORTIONAL ELECTORAL FORMULA FITS YOU BEST? ASSESSING THE PROPORTIONALITY PRINCIPLE OF POSITIVE VOTE TRANSFER SYSTEMS
In: Representation, Band 50, Heft 1, S. 113-127
ISSN: 1749-4001
Radicalizing electoral system effects on support for nationalist hardliners in Serbia
In: Nations and nationalism: journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 21-43
ISSN: 1354-5078