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Electoral Behaviour I: Seat Allocation Methods and Territorial Patterns

Comparative Politics
Elections
Political Competition
Coalition
Electoral Behaviour
Party Systems
Voting Behaviour
S090
Jarosław Flis
Jagiellonian University
Marek Kamiński
University of California, Irvine

Building: (Building A) Faculty of Law, Administration & Economics , Floor: 2nd floor, Room: 215

Friday 09:00 - 10:40 CEST (06/09/2019)

Abstract

The panel seeks to bring together diverse scholarship on the relationship between seats and votes in proportional and mixed electoral systems, and particularly its dependence on the systemic parameters such as district magnitude and artificial thresholds. The participants seek to estimate regular patterns of seats-votes relationships under different PR formulas; to investigate the factors that cause deviations from those patterns; to analyze the interaction between electoral parameters (particularly the district magnitude) and the number of relevant parties, seeking more precise quantitative models for predicting the latter; and to estimate the possibilities, risks, and effects of electoral engineering and coalition formation.

Title Details
Spoiler Effects in Proportional Representation Systems: Evidence from Eight Polish Parliamentary Elections, 1991–2015 View Paper Details
The Proportionality Principle in the World’s Electoral Systems View Paper Details
Normative and Descriptive Applications of the Concept of Degressive and Progressive Proportionality View Paper Details
When Do Past Voting Patterns Improve the Quality of Predicted Seat Allocation Under D’Hondt? View Paper Details
A Formal Model of the Relationship between the District Magnitude and the Number of Parties View Paper Details