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.
源记录
引文逐字复制自方法源记录。这些引文不代表任何层级的验证。
- 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
精选声明
声明已持久化到证据分类账中,每个声明都有自己的评估。
当分类账中没有声明时,此视图不会自行创建声明评估。
相关方法
从方法图中生成,显示为机器建议的关系 — 不推断任何证据声明。