Electoral System Analysis
Electoral system analysis examines how the rules for translating votes into seats shape the proportionality of representation and the format of the party system. Maurice Duverger's 1954 work established the foundational propositions — that single-member plurality tends toward two-party competition while proportional representation favors multipartism — through the joint operation of a mechanical effect (how the seat-allocation rule itself distorts the vote) and a psychological effect (how voters and elites anticipate that rule and behave strategically). Rein Taagepera and Matthew Shugart (1989) put the field on a quantitative footing by showing how district magnitude and other parameters systematically determine outcomes, and Arend Lijphart (1994) provided the major comparative study of disproportionality and party systems across democracies. The method reads electoral rules as a powerful, designed lever over the structure of political competition.
Zdrojový záznam
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- Duverger, M. (1954). Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State. Wiley. · ISBN 9780416683202
- Lijphart, A. (1994). Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990. Oxford University Press. · ISBN 9780198273479
- Taagepera, R., & Shugart, M. S. (1989). Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems. Yale University Press. · ISBN 9780300041798
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