Electoral Rules and Electoral Behaviour: The Scope of Effects (West European Politics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1138574619 ISBN 13: 9781138574618

Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

Across representative democracies, there is a strong variation in the rules that govern the electoral process. A classic insight in political science is that these rules, e.g., the presence of a majoritarian or a proportional system have a profound effect on the way a democracy functions. We know less however, about the way voters actually respond to these electoral rules. This kind of effect presupposes that voters not only are aware of the electoral system, but also that they adapt to the incentives offered by the system. In this volume, a group of international scholars investigate whether this is indeed the case. The various chapters in this volume deal with the effect of proportionality, mixed-member systems, compulsory voting and preferential voting. The chapters are based on recent data and state-of-the-art methods. The introduction confronts the findings of the various chapters with the allegedly universal validity of vote choice models in the literature. The research presented in this volume mainly deals with elections in Europe, but the findings speak to the broader community of electoral scholars. The chapters originally published as a special issue in West European Politics.

About this title

About the Author:

Ruth Dassonneville is Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Marc Hooghe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor at the University of Iowa, USA.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1138574619
• ISBN 13: 9781138574618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Dassonneville Ruth, Hooghe Marc, Lewis-Beck Michael S.