Preferential Voting Systems

Passarelli, Gianluca

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“…In MTM systems, the extent of voters' leverage largely depends on the ballot structure. An MTM system that allows preferential votingfor instance, through open lists or single transferable voteoffers a way for voters to express their preference for locals (however slight) within a party slate (Passarelli 2020;Renwick and Pilet 2016). Preferential voting may thus lead to more geographically representative delegations of MPs than under closed-list systems, where voters cannot change the candidate ranking chosen by the party.…”

Section: Single-member and Multi-member Districtsmentioning

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Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation

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Eggers

2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Who gets represented in legislatures, and how does this depend on electoral institutions? Others have asked this question from the perspective of gender, race, and class. We focus on space, asking whether MPs disproportionately come from some places rather than others and how this depends on electoral rules. Using data on over 13,000 legislators in sixty-two democracies, we developed a new measure to determine whether the spatial distribution of MP birthplaces matched the spatial distribution of the citizens they represented. Contrary to received wisdom, single-member district systems do not have more geographically representative parliaments than multi-member district systems, while mixed-member systems perform significantly better than both. We attribute the higher spatial representativeness of mixed-member systems to the contamination effects in their single-member tier. We present evidence for this explanation from a within-country analysis of elections in Italy, the UK, and Germany.

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Section: Single-member and Multi-member Districtsmentioning

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Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation

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Eggers

2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…The nature of intra-party competition in preferential-list PR systems depends on the type of intra-party preferential voting system and the number of preferential votes permitted (Passarelli, 2020). Regarding the former dimension, a distinction can be made between open-and flexible-list PR systems.…”

Section: Incumbency and Party Funding Sources In List Pr Systemsmentioning

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“…Triggered by the increasing scholarly attention to preferential voting and its effects on intraparty competition (e.g. Passarelli, 2020), a growing body of research has started looking into how exactly parties attempt to manage the distribution of preferential votes across candidates on lists while at the same time maximizing list vote shares (e.g. Put et al, 2019).…”

Section: Incumbency and Party Funding Sources In List Pr Systemsmentioning

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Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia

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Muyters

2022

International Political Science Review

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Previous work on candidate campaign finance in list proportional representation systems has focused on differential electoral returns of spending for incumbent and challenger candidates. This article asks whether incumbents and challengers in these systems fund election campaigns from different sources. We hypothesize that incumbents receive more: (a) contributions from individual and corporate donors; and (b) financial support from party organizations, as party elites strategically deploy resources to constrain intra-party competition. The analysis is based on a dataset on campaign funding sources of candidates for two legislative elections in Colombia (2014 and 2018). The results confirm that party organizations transfer more financial resources to incumbents than to challengers. Contrary to expectations, parties do not specifically support the electorally most vulnerable incumbents. We also find that challengers receive higher levels of non-corporate private donations than incumbents. These findings provide insights into individual campaigns and demonstrate how parties coordinate intra-party competition through campaign funding.

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“…As a result, the United Nations took over all functions of the state for a long period. This external actor played a crucial role in designing the electoral system: proportional representation with preferential voting (Passarelli, 2020). In this line of thinking, the impact of a high personalised electoral system on the intra-party democracy has been compelling.…”

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The Process of Democratisation, the Political Parties and the Electoral Systems in the Western Balkans (1990–2020)

Passarelli

2022

Political Studies Review

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At the end of the twentieth century, the transition from non-democratic regimes has been the most important political event in the Western Balkans. The fall of the Berlin wall in 1989 paved the way to the sudden collapse and breakdown of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and in the Western Balkans, albeit some of them did already show a growing decline. Despite the variation in terms of institutional framework and electoral systems, the Western Balkan countries do present difference in some aspects of the political system but not for all the variables considered. The different scenarios that involved the Western Balkan countries during the armed conflicts have generated often negative outcomes in terms of democratic performances, or better have exacerbated persistent resistances to the democratic strengthening from the political actors. The factors beyond these different patterns can be indicated in three main areas: (1) the type of democratic transition and the role of the different actors in the process, (2) the influence of the political parties and their genetic features and (3) finally, considering the context, the impact of the war in the country

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Preferential Voting Systems

Cited by 28 publications

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Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation

Electoral Systems and Geographic Representation

Sources of campaign funding for incumbents versus challengers in list proportional representation systems: The case of Colombia

The Process of Democratisation, the Political Parties and the Electoral Systems in the Western Balkans (1990–2020)

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