Votes from seats : logical models of electoral systems / Matthew S. Shugart, University of California, Davis ; Rein Taagepera, University of California, Irvine.
Shugart, Matthew Soberg, 1960- author.; Taagepera, Rein, author.
2017
JF1001 .S537 2017 (Mapit)
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Title
Votes from seats : logical models of electoral systems / Matthew S. Shugart, University of California, Davis ; Rein Taagepera, University of California, Irvine.
Author
Shugart, Matthew Soberg, 1960- author.
ISBN
9781108404266 (paperback)
110840426X (paperback)
9781108417020 (hardcover)
1108417027 (hardcover)
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
xvi, 343 pages ; 23 cm
Call Number
JF1001 .S537 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification
324.601
Summary
"Take the number of seats in a representative assembly and the number of seats in districts through which this assembly is elected. From just these two numbers, the authors...show that it is possible to deduce the number of parties in the assembly and in the electorate, as well as the size of the largest party. Inside parties, the vote distributions of individual candidates likewise follow predictable patterns. Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using scientific approaches rare in social sciences. Both complex and simple electoral systems are covered, and the book offers a set of 'best practices' for electoral system design. The ability to predict so much from so little, and to apply to countries worldwide, is an advance in the systematic analysis of a core institutional feature found in any democracy, and points the way towards making social sciences more predictive."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Taagepera, Rein, author.
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Introduction: How electoral systems matter : for politics and the scientific study thereof
Components of simple electoral systems
Components of complex and composite electoral systems
The number of parties and proportionality : two key tools for analysis
Examples of electoral systems : nationwide PR in Israel and FPTP in Trinidad and Tobago, and India
Examples of electoral systems : districted PR and list type in Finland, Portugal, and elsewhere
The seat product model of the effective number of assembly parties
Winners plus one : how we get votes from seats
Basic laws of party seats and votes : and application to deviation from proportionality
All politics is national? : how "embeddedness" in a national assembly system shapes votes and seats in a district
Coattails upside down : how assembly elections shape presidential elections
How election timing matters in presidential democracy : and how it does not
How electoral systems shape candidate vote shares
Pooling or its absence : nomination and alliance behavior
Extending the seat product model : upper tiers and ethnic diversity
Complexities in electoral systems : do simple models work anyway?
Conclusion: Substance and method.

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