Districted proportional systems give an edge to right-wing parties that are more popular in
rural areas where district magnitude is small and large parties are mechanically …

A vast literature shows that voting for the winning party in elections boosts satisfaction with
democracy. But in many list PR systems, voters do not only vote for a party, they can also …

One of the ways in which 'good'representation can be measured and assessed is by the
degree of congruence between the preferences of the population and the preferences and …

Strategic voting can take different forms. It can consist in deserting a small party for a bigger
one that has more chances of forming the government, or to the contrary, desert ing a big …

One of the well-known properties of multimember plurality systems is their propensity toward
producing the so-called “sweep effect,” manifesting itself in that the strongest party in a …

How should democracy be organized in countries that are deeply divided along ethnic,
linguistic or religious lines? For decades, this question has sparked a fierce debate between …

ABSTRACT According to Duverger's Law, plurality voting systems lead to two-party
competition. However, many results of national parliamentary elections deviate from this …

This article introduces the special issue 'Assessing democratic representation in multi-level
democracies' from a conceptual perspective. It adapts Powell's chain of responsiveness–as …

Voters in PR list electoral systems have many degrees of freedom when making their voting
choice (Renwick & Pilet, 2018). First, they have to decide which list they will vote for, but then …

Ce travail ambitionne d'établir des pistes d'explications aux comportements électoraux
d'électeurs non-néerlandophones ayant choisi une liste néerlandophone dans la …