The short-term effects of electoral reforms

While electoral reforms clearly affect how seats are (re)distributed among parties immediately after their adoption, they do not significantly change the (re)distribution of votes among parties. As political knowledge is positively related to turnout, we argue that the effect of majoritarian elector...

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Autores: Lago Peñas, Ignacio, Martínez i Coma, Ferran
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)
Repositorio:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunya
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Palabra clave:electoral reform
political parties
proportionality
psychological effect
turnout
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spelling The short-term effects of electoral reformsLago Peñas, IgnacioMartínez i Coma, Ferranelectoral reformpolitical partiesproportionalitypsychological effectturnoutWhile electoral reforms clearly affect how seats are (re)distributed among parties immediately after their adoption, they do not significantly change the (re)distribution of votes among parties. As political knowledge is positively related to turnout, we argue that the effect of majoritarian electoral reforms on the number of parties is contingent upon the turnout in the last election prior to the reform. Specifically, the lower the turnout level in the previous election, the more effective the majoritarian reform will be. However, the psychological effect of proportional reforms relies on the interplay between elites and voters and is highly uncertain. The argument is tested using aggregated data from 43 major electoral reforms worldwide from 1945 to 2020 and individual data from the first election held in New Zealand after the 1993 electoral reform.SAGE Publications202320232022info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/56777http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13540688221106293reponame:Recercat. Dipósit de la Recerca de Catalunyainstname:Varias* (Consorci de Biblioteques Universitáries de Catalunya, Centre de Serveis Científics i Acadèmics de Catalunya)InglésParty Politics. 2023;29(5):906-17.https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/13540688221106293/suppl_file/sj-pdf-1-ppq-10.1177_13540688221106293.pdf© The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:recercat.cat:10230/567772026-05-29T05:05:01Z
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title The short-term effects of electoral reforms
spellingShingle The short-term effects of electoral reforms
Lago Peñas, Ignacio
electoral reform
political parties
proportionality
psychological effect
turnout
title_short The short-term effects of electoral reforms
title_full The short-term effects of electoral reforms
title_fullStr The short-term effects of electoral reforms
title_full_unstemmed The short-term effects of electoral reforms
title_sort The short-term effects of electoral reforms
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Lago Peñas, Ignacio
Martínez i Coma, Ferran
author Lago Peñas, Ignacio
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Martínez i Coma, Ferran
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv electoral reform
political parties
proportionality
psychological effect
turnout
topic electoral reform
political parties
proportionality
psychological effect
turnout
description While electoral reforms clearly affect how seats are (re)distributed among parties immediately after their adoption, they do not significantly change the (re)distribution of votes among parties. As political knowledge is positively related to turnout, we argue that the effect of majoritarian electoral reforms on the number of parties is contingent upon the turnout in the last election prior to the reform. Specifically, the lower the turnout level in the previous election, the more effective the majoritarian reform will be. However, the psychological effect of proportional reforms relies on the interplay between elites and voters and is highly uncertain. The argument is tested using aggregated data from 43 major electoral reforms worldwide from 1945 to 2020 and individual data from the first election held in New Zealand after the 1993 electoral reform.
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