Measuring Electoral Systems
Författare
Summary, in English
This article compares and assesses four freely available cross-sectional time-series data sets in terms of their information on ballot structure, district structure, and formula of the electoral system in use for lower house and, if relevant, upper house and presidential elections. The authors find that the choice of data source matters for conclusions drawn on the consequences of electoral systems for both party systems and corruption, but that no source can be given prominence over the other on methodological grounds. Students of electoral systems must thus, in the future, make their results sensitive to the choice of data source.
Avdelning/ar
Publiceringsår
2010
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
434-448
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Political Research Quarterly
Volym
63
Issue
2
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
SAGE Publications
Ämne
- Political Science
Nyckelord
- electoral systems
- data evaluation
- party systems
- corruption
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1938-274X