It is a well-established finding that proportional representation (PR) electoral systems are
associated with greater legislative representation for women than single member systems …

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 …

The presence of big data, online systems, collaborations of remote agents, distributed
knowledge, social media interaction, and generally, digital globalization, changes the way …

We provide empirical evidence for Tullock's claim (Tullock (1967, 1981)) that many of the
problems known from social choice literature do not show up in practice. In particular, even …

ABSTRACT A classical question of political science is to what extent electoral systems
influence voting behaviour. Yet, many of these studies examine how different electoral …

This book contains 16 contributions that were presented in the workshop “Voting
experiments,” organized by the editors in Montreal on March 28–29, 2014. This workshop …

During the first round of the 2012 French presidential election, participants in an in situ
experiment were invited to vote according to “evaluative voting”, which involves rating the …

Many academics and commentators argue that Europe is suffering from a democratic deficit.
An interesting proposal that has been put forward to address this problem is to elect some …

In mass democracies, voting—in elections or referendums—is the main way in which most
citizens can publicly express their political preferences. And yet this means of expression is …

An important issue is whether respondents understood the electoral rules under which they
were asked to cast a vote. If respondents did not understand that they had different options …