Preferential Voting
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Táto kniha ako prvá prináša komplexné spracovanie témy preferenčného hlasovania v parlamentných voľbách na Slovensku. Tento mechanizmus sa v slovenských podmienkach uplatňuje od roku 1990, no jeho dosah na personálne zloženie parlamentu... more
The South Pacific’s two largest independent island states embraced bold institutional reform packages at the turn of the millennium. Both Papua New Guinea and Fiji shifted away from first-past-the-post (or plurality) systems and adopted... more
** Final version published in Political Behavior ** "Candidates increasingly make use of social media in election campaigns. However, little is known about the effect this increased use of social media has. Candidates themselves seem to... more
Ranked-choice voting has come to mean a range of electoral systems. Broadly, they can facilitate (a) majority winners in single-seat districts, (b) majority rule with minority representation in multi-seat districts, or (c) majority sweeps... more
This paper sets out to show whether constituency campaign effects exist, particularly in the context of a preferential electoral system such as Aus-tralia's. Data from the 1993 Australian Election Study suggest that, despite the best... more
U ovom radu se uporednom praksom različitih država razmatra na koji način je moguće prevazići nedostatke sadašnjeg izbornog sistema Republike Srbije. Nedostatak odgovornosti poslanika, kao posledicu zatvorenih lista, moguće je... more
And so, the election analyses continue. Many valid points have been made, about why the ALP won, why the Coalition lost, why the Greens did so well, why the so-called "teals" emerged, why the Liberal moderates were shown the exit door,... more
This article deals with ballot order effect in preferential voting in general elections in Slovakia. Previous research in this field has primarily focused on countries whose elections are based either on single-member districts or on... more
This review article sets out to give an overarching presentation of Nordic research on political behaviour, which has constituted a vital subfield within Nordic political science since the 1950s. The aim of the article is to give the... more
Este estudio analiza el efecto de distintas estrategias de campaña electoral en los niveles de incertidumbre y variabilidad en la distribución de escaños legislativos, en el marco de un recientemente implementado sistema de voto... more
Lo studio dei voti di preferenza in Italia da sempre rappresenta un tema delicato, in quanto interessa il precipuo rapporto tra elettori e candidati, con effetti e conseguenze sulla rappresentanza politica, sul sistema politico e sulla... more
In this article we use concentration of electoral support for individual candidates and divergence between party and electorate preferences for candidates to test hypotheses about the party–electorate relationship. We test these using... more
We examine minority representation resulting from modified at-large elections (cumulative and limited voting) used in U.S. localities in the 1990s. Hypotheses about the relative proportionality of descriptive representation under various... more