Split-Ticket Voting in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems

Mixed electoral systems are an intriguing kind of institutional animal for constitutional designers and political scientists alike. They may not always represent the famous ‘best of both worlds’, as their effects can be complex. They may even offer specific opportunities for strategic abuse, for instance, when fake parties are used to boost compensatory seats. But they are very well suited for the controlled analysis of political behaviour in different institutional contexts. In her book Split-Ticket Voting in Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: A Theoretical and Methodological Investigation, Carolina Plescia makes good use of this.… the book is clearly a very fine piece of scholarly research which clearly deserves both the 2014 Jean Blondel Prize and the soft cover edition announced by ECPR Press via Twitter on 23 November 2016. -- Julian Bernauer, 'Party Politics'

Carolina Plescia is an Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Vienna. She received her PhD from Trinity College Dublin in 2014. Her PhD won the ECPR Jean Blondel Prize. Currently she leads an ERC Starting Grant project. Previously she held a grant to study voters' reactions to political compromise with the Austrian Science Fund. Her research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, European Journal of Political Research, Political Science Research and Methods, and Political Psychology. She is the author of Split-ticket voting in mixed-member electoral systems: a theoretical and methodological investigation (ECPR press, 2016).