Electoral Systems and Legislative Behaviour

Abstract

This panel focuses on the impact of electoral systems on the behaviour of legislators and political parties. Its papers empirically study theories on the distribution of power in parliaments and the size of political parties; the selection of candidates under different electoral formulas; the personal vote and the individualistic behaviour of legislators as well as the consequences of electoral systems for pork barrel politics. These processes are observed in cases of Latin American and European countries such as Switzerland and Slovakia.

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Can Electoral Systems Determine how Particularistic Spending is Distributed in Developing Countries? Evidence from Honduras	View Paper Details
Private Members’ Bills and the Personal Vote: Neither Selling nor Shaving	View Paper Details
Leaders or Ideologies? Voters, Parties and Personal Vote in Slovakia	View Paper Details
How Multi-Member Majoritarian Elections produce Proportional Outcomes	View Paper Details