Ballotage versus colegio electoral. Sistemas electorales y elecciones presidenciales en Argentina
América Latina Hoy, 2009 RESUMEN: El autor analiza la evolución electoral argentina desde la redemocratización de 1983. En todos los ámbitos territoriales se observa una creciente fragmentación que cuestiona el tradicional bipartidismo entre peronistas y radicales, y afecta a la
Ernesto CABRERA
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The Emergence of Political Opposition in Mexico, 1949-1952. Two Proposals for Electoral
Historia y Memoria, 2017 Using methodological elements from political and institutional history, the present article analyzes, the first proposal for the implementation of an electoral system of proportional representation in Mexico and its primary repercussions in the ...
José Fernando Ayala López
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A Multi-Criteria Pen for Drawing Fair Districts: When Democratic and Demographic Fairness Matter
Mathematics, 2020 Electoral systems are modified by individuals who have incentives to bias the rules for their political advantage (i.e., gerrymandering). To prevent gerrymandering, legislative institutions can rely on mathematical tools to guarantee democratic fairness ...
Eduardo Álvarez-Miranda +4 more
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013 Varma proposes electoral and political reforms to reserve politics only to perfectionists who intend to dedicate their whole time and energy to serve the people of the country round the clock. It is imperative to consider these new political and electoral reforms for better, healthy and improved democracy to remove corruption, inequalities ...
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Poblaciones indígenas y elecciones locales en cuatro municipios del Departamento del Cauca 2003-2015
Colombia Internacional, 2018 This article presents a general view of the electoral behaviour of four Colombian municipalities with high indigenous population density. The study focused on the last four local electoral events that took place from 2003 to 2015.
Eduardo Andrés Chilito
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Pactos electorales y proporcionalidad de la representación. Evidencia del caso de Chile, 2017
Colombia Internacional, 2020 Objective/context: This article analyzes the effects of the Chilean electoral reform on proportionality, focusing mainly on electoral pacts. Methodology: The research uses data of the election of the Chilean Chamber of Deputies of 2017, in order to ...
Ricardo Gamboa, Mauricio Morales
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Electoral Reform and Strategic Coordination [PDF]
British Journal of Political Science, 2020 AbstractElectoral reform creates new strategic coordination incentives for voters and elites, but endogeneity problems make such effects hard to identify. This article addresses this issue by investigating an extraordinary dataset, from the introduction of proportional representation (PR) in Norway in 1919, which permits the measurement of parties ...
Jon H. Fiva, Simon Hix
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Electoral reform of GMSC [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 EDITOR,—As a member of the General Medical Services Committee of many years' standing who may have to answer to an electorate of ordinary general practitioners, J David Watts has one view of the need for changes in the method of election to the committee.1 I, as one of those ordinary doctors, have another view.2 It is perhaps understandable that they ...
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Individual electoral registration still needs a lot of work, if it is not to be a car crash for British democracy [PDF]
, 2013 Most of the Conservative-Liberal Democrat Coalition’s original programme of constitutional reform has conspicuously failed to get implemented (notably AV, Westminster boundary changes and House of Lords reform).
James, Toby
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The rejection of AV is the fifth occasion in the last 100 years that a proposal to replace FPTP has failed. This history of failure to secure electoral reform hinges on the ever-changing political calculus between Labour and the Liberal Democrats [PDF]
, 2011 Throughout the AV referendum campaign, there was general agreement that it was a ‘once-in-a-generation’ opportunity for electoral reform in Britain. But, does greater impetus for electoral reform happen only once in a generation?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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