Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-communist Democracies

, by Bochsler, Daniel

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ISBN: 9780230248274 | 0230248276
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Copyright: 6/15/2010

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Electoral systems are the central pillar of every constitutional design. To understand their effect on party systems, we need to consider the issue of territory.

List of Figures	p. viii
List of Tables	p. x
Notation of Variables	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
Introduction: Electoral Systems and Party Systems in the New European Democracies	p. 1
Previous research	p. 2
Relevance and innovations of this study	p. 6
A short guide through this book	p. 11
Conclusions	p. 13
The Puzzle of Electoral Systems' Impact in Post-Communist Democracies	p. 15
Introduction	p. 15
Electoral systems and party systems - the conventional view	p. 17
The empirical puzzle: And it all looks like nonsense...	p. 30
Conclusions: Do electoral systems not work in post-communist countries?	p. 36
How to Measure Party Nationalisation	p. 37
Introduction: The relevance of party nationalisation and the lack of a reliable measure	p. 37
Previous measures of party nationalisation	p. 39
The Gini coefficient to measure regional heterogeneity	p. 45
Developments on the party nationalisation score: The impact of the size of territorial units	p. 47
Testing the 'standardised party nationalisation score' on Central and Eastern European data	p. 52
Conclusions	p. 56
Explaining the Nationalisation of Party Systems in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 58
Introduction: Why study party nationalisation?	p. 58
Four explanations for party nationalisation	p. 60
Operationalisation	p. 65
Party nationalisation in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 67
Conclusions: Determinants of party nationalisation	p. 83
How Party Systems Develop in Mixed Electoral Systems	p. 86
Introduction	p. 86
Mixed electoral systems: Terminology and application	p. 89
How much compensation in mixed compensatory electoral systems?	p. 93
Economics of votes: The run for better conversion rates	p. 96
Party system stability and party system change	p. 102
The consequences of mixed electoral systems - empirical study	p. 108
Identifying party system equilibria	p. 117
How to transform a compensatory into a non-compensatory system	p. 123
The best of both worlds? Preliminary conclusions and suggestions for further research	p. 129
Counting Votes and Places: The Joint Effect of Electoral Rules and Territory	p. 132
Introduction	p. 132
About methodology: Going beyond directional models in political science	p. 134
How to resolve the Central and Eastern European electoral system puzzle?	p. 135
A model of district magnitude, number of districts and party nationalisation	p. 140
The importance of national electoral thresholds	p. 144
Umbrellas and rainbows - the early development of the new party systems	p. 147
Testing the full party nationalisation model	p. 149
A comprehensive model for the fragmentation of party systems	p. 156
Conclusions	p. 161
Conclusions: An Institutional Model to Predict the Number of Parties in Central and Eastern Europe	p. 163
A two-step model to investigate the effect of party nationalisation and electoral systems	p. 164
Territorial ethnic divides, super-presidencies and party nationalisation	p. 165
The joint impact of party nationalisation and district magnitude	p. 166
A comprehensive model for the fragmentation of party systems	p. 168
Mixed electoral systems - the surprise packet among the electoral systems	p. 168
Institutions work	p. 169
Relation to previous studies of electoral systems	p. 170
Party nationalisation and the size of party systems in different contexts	p. 171
Appendices	p. 174
	p. 174
	p. 175
	p. 176
Notes	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 197
Index	p. 213
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Territory and Electoral Rules in Post-communist Democracies

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