Reevaluating the Influence of Leaders Under Proportional Representation: Quantitative Analysis of Text in an Electoral Experiment [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 We propose that leaders play a more important role in voters’ party sympathy in proportional representation systems (PR) than previous research has suggested. Voters, from the 2018 Swedish General Election, were in an experiment asked to describe leaders
Annika Fredén, Sverker Sikström
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Achieving proportional representation in a reproductive health survey through social media: process and recommendations [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2022 Background The narrative surrounding women’s reproductive health has shifted from a medical model to an emphasis on reproductive well-being over different life-stages.
Ona L. McCarthy +8 more
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Synchronising institutions and value systems: A model of opinion dynamics mediated by proportional representation. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 Individuals increasingly participate in online platforms where they copy, share and form they opinions. Social interactions in these platforms are mediated by digital institutions, which dictate algorithms that in turn affect how users form and evolve ...
Jose Segovia-Martin, Monica Tamariz
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Public goods equilibria under closed- and open-list proportional representation
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020 Building on past research, this paper develops a game theoretic model to study the provision of local public goods under closed- and open-list proportional representation (CLPR and OLPR).
D. Kselman
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Party, candidate, and voter incentives under free list proportional representation
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020 Under free list proportional representation voters can: (a) cast preference votes for candidates; (b) cast multiple preferences; and (c) distribute preferences across multiple lists. Alternatively, they can cast a list vote.
Thomas Mustillo, John Polga-Hecimovich
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Voting behavior under proportional representation
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020 Understanding voter preferences in proportional representation (PR) systems is an essential first step towards understanding candidate selection and behavior.
Peter Buisseret, Carlo G. Prato
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Challenging the wisdom on preferential proportional representation
Journal of Theoretical Politics, 2020 The conclusion to the special issue takes stock of both the first and the second generations of research on preferential proportional representation (PR) and electoral personalism.
Carol Mershon
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Information aggregation and turnout in proportional representation: A laboratory experiment
Journal of Public Economics, 2019 This paper documents a laboratory experiment that analyses voter participation in common interest proportional representation (PR) elections, comparing this with majority rule.
Helios Herrera +4 more
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Electoral Studies, 2017 We use evidence from Indonesia's April 2014 legislative elections to study the relationship between incumbency, list position, candidate characteristics, and electoral success in open-list PR systems.
Sebastian Dettman +2 more
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Parties, Legislators, and the Origins of Proportional Representation
Comparative Political Studies, 2019 Gary W Cox, Jon H Fiva, Daniel M Smith
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