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Representation and district magnitude in plurality systems
Electoral Studies, 2014Despite the widely accepted theoretical prediction that high district magnitudes should yield less proportional results in plurality systems, empirical evidence is surprisingly mixed. We argue that these mixed results are ultimately due to a lack of clarity about the counterfactual being considered.
Andrew C. Eggers +1 more
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Partisan turnout bias and district magnitude
Electoral Studies, 2014This article examines how the partisan turnout bias (i.e. turnout rate differences across districts that are linked to the partisan vote shares in those districts) changes over time in PR districted electoral systems. We argue that the bias after the founding election is the unintended consequence of parties and voters' strategic behaviors when they ...
Ignacio Lago Peñas, Marina Costa Lobo
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District magnitude, personal votes, and government expenditures
Electoral Studies, 2007Previous research has that proportional-representation systems produce higher levels of government spending than do majoritarian systems. In some studies, scholars use district magnitude to reach this conclusion, showing a positive relationship between it and government expenditure.
Martin S Edwards
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The law of large districts: How district magnitude affects the quality of political representation
European Journal of Political Economy, 2014It is well established that individual parliamentary representatives are less likely to decide according to the preferences of their constituency when the number of representatives per district, i.e. district magnitude, increases. However, we propose that for majority decisions of district representatives the opposite holds due to the existence of a ...
David Stadelmann +2 more
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The effect of variance in district magnitude on party system inflation
Electoral Studies, 2018Abstract We argue that variance in district magnitude affects party system inflation by shaping the process of within- and cross-district coordination. First, at the stage of within-district coordination, electoral systems with large magnitude variance generate different party systems across districts, with larger districts having more fragmented ...
Joan Barceló, Taishi Muraoka
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District Magnitude, Social Heterogeneity and Local Party System Fragmentation
Party Politics, 2006Scholars analysing party system structures have generally followed two approaches. The ‘institutional’ approach emphasizes the role of electoral laws, while the ‘sociological’ approach highlights the effect of socioeconomic heterogeneity. Recently, evidence based on cross-country data indicated that a high level of fragmentation requires both a ...
Benny Geys
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District magnitude and the personal vote
Electoral Studies, 2014Abstract In spite of widespread interest in the effects of electoral institutions, research has largely missed, or misspecified, the ‘theoretical link’ tying legislators' behaviour to the rules' formal properties. District magnitude, in particular, can operate through the number of candidates running under the same party label and the number of votes
Audrey, André, Depauw, Sam
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The Impact of District Magnitude on Campaign Fundraising
Legislative Studies Quarterly, 2013The number of legislators elected in a single district influences many aspects of state legislative elections. However, there is a dearth of research on how district magnitude influences campaign fundraising. We theorize that the greater competition for funds in multimember districts results in candidates raising less money and encourages them to be ...
James M. Curry +2 more
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Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2004The relationship between electoral systems and corruption in a large sample of contemporary democratic nations is analysed in this article. Whereas previous studies have shown that closed-list proportional representation is associated with greater (perceived) corruption than open-list PR, it is demonstrated here that this relationship fails to hold ...
ERIC C. C. CHANG, MIRIAM A. GOLDEN
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