Electoral Systems
Questions
Complementarities of electoral and political sistems. Moving from majoritarian to proportional.
Alternative
vote
Lectures
Dimensions
Ballot structure
Electoral
formula
Majoritarian
Two-round
System
Alternative
vote
First past the post
One candidate in each constityency per party
One vote per citizen
One vote per citizen
Second round if candidates don't get 50% (or other)
Candidate with most votes wins.
One candidate in each constityency per party
Citizens rank
Elimination and continius conting until 50%
Propotional
Closed
Open
Vote for the party list
Vote for the candidate
Mixed
Independent
Dependent
Dependent on the distribution of seats in majoritarian systems (compensate)
Independent on the distribution of seats in majoritarian system
Sustainable
institutional design
Polarize groups
MR are ill-advised
Polarization
Identity
Easy to vote and count
New cases (Maine)
PR
Lower politicans quality
But it depend on minorities concentration and size
Increase the number of parties.
Effect of heterogeneity
(United States by state)
Effect of quotas
Electoral reforms
Distric Magnitude
Only feasible if increase ruling partie's vote share
One candidate in each constityency per party
Effective threshold are decreasing
Move from MR to PR
More engranchised voters
New parties strong but np dominant
Gerrymandering
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