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Reconsidering Representation How Electoral Districts Shape Party Systems

An electoral system is an essential component of representative democracy. It translates preferences of citizens to a legislative body and inevitably distorts preferences, voicing some more loudly than others. Theorizing and empir... ver más

31/10/2016

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Descripción del proyecto An electoral system is an essential component of representative democracy. It translates preferences of citizens to a legislative body and inevitably distorts preferences, voicing some more loudly than others. Theorizing and empirically analyzing how the electoral system tilts the playing ground is the aim of this study. The number of seats allotted to an electoral district—the district magnitude (DM)—is perhaps the most important component defining an electoral system. It is long established that DM affects key features of the political landscape in a country, such as representation, the number of parties, the type of government (single- or multi-party coalition), parties’ strategy, voters’ consideration, and even redistribution policy. Most democracies, however, have districts of many different magnitudes, and the range often reaches thirty seats gap between the smallest and largest districts in a country. Districts in Portugal, for instance, vary between two and forty-eight seats, and in Switzerland between one and thirty-five. The voluminous literature on electoral districts uniformly sidesteps this heterogeneity, focusing instead on a single middle district per country. The proposed study is the first large-scale study that theorizes about and empirically analyzes the effects of within-country district structure. I address questions such as: how does district heterogeneity shape representation at the national level? How does it affect the party system? And how does it affect party coordination? In the first part of the study I will theorize about various aspects of district heterogeneity in a country (e.g., skewness, effective number of magnitudes). I will gain deep understanding for district distributions and develop politically-relevant measures of heterogeneity. Drawing on insights from the theoretical part, the second part will empirically examine how district heterogeneity affects the political landscape, and in particular representation, party system, and party coordination. This part relies on extensive district- and national-level data collection and data analysis in OECD countries as well as in-depth case analysis. Analyzing the effect of district heterogeneity on representation, party systems, and party coordination will open new avenues of research about design of electoral systems.

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