Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral SystemsJosep M. Colomer Personal representation is a necessary element to achieve a high quality of democracy. Many studies of electoral systems, by focusing on the allocation of seats to parties, have neglected the study of this essential dimension. In democratic countries different ballot forms and rules exist to vote for individual candidates and to allocate seats to individuals. This book studies the different voting procedures and formulas for personal representation, their origins and consequences, their compatibility with party representation and the strategies and normative criteria for electoral system choice. It presents an analytical framework, new empirical data, an innovative classification of electoral systems, and reproduction of ballots from different countries. The different chapters also offer a number of comparative and single-case studies on candidate selection and on voting in single-seat districts, closed party lists, primary elections, mixed systems, open lists with preferential votes, and open and ordinal ballots. |
Contents
Tables | 10 |
Figures | 24 |
Personal and party representation between and within parties | 34 |
Single Seat | 37 |
Seats votes and disproportionality for Great Britain 2010 | 40 |
Relative use of MPs expenses as a search term 20092010 | 49 |
Closed Party List | 55 |
Electoral performance by district UCD 19771979 | 68 |
Party and personal representation in mixed electoral systems | 112 |
Preferential Vote in Party List | 119 |
Preferential list systems Theoretical range of variation | 121 |
The origins of preferential list systems compared with closed | 130 |
Ordinal Rank | 135 |
Election count Cork NW 2007 | 139 |
Disproportionality for FF and FG 19232007 | 141 |
Who should TDs represent? | 145 |
Ratios of parachutists by party and election | 70 |
Determinants of personal vote in Spain PSOE 19772008 | 75 |
Primary Elections | 81 |
Closing prices for Democratic candidates on the Iowa | 89 |
OLS regressions of turnout on measures of competitiveness | 94 |
Turnout vs national uncertainty open primaries | 96 |
Mixed Systems | 99 |
The effect of individual preferences in Lithuanian legislative | 107 |
Open Ballot | 153 |
Number of ballots presented by parties in the 2007 election | 162 |
Frequency of rank correlations between alphabetical order | 164 |
Multilevel model explaining the number of unchanged party | 170 |
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