▪ Abstract Electoral coordination occurs at two main levels:(a) within individual electoral
districts, where competitors coordinate entry and citizens coordinate votes; and (b) across …

Seat allocation formulas affect candidates' incentives to campaign on a personal rather than
party reputation. Variables that enhance personal vote-seeking include:(1) lack of party …

The institutions that define the sequence of delegations that democracy entails have
systematic effects on public policy. Democratic states that systematically provide public …

Take the number of seats in a representative assembly and the number of seats in districts
through which this assembly is elected. From just these two numbers, the authors of Votes …

Using election returns, public opinion surveys, and legislative roll-call data from many mixed
systems in every world region, the authors show that contamination systematically affects …

Previous investigations of strategic voting equilibria in mass electorates have looked only at
single-member districts. I shall investigate such equilibria in multimember districts operating …

Even though voters can have complex preferences over multiple candidates or parties, all
extant electoral systems provide political representation based solely or primarily on voters' …

Recent studies on strategic voting and entry in elections that combine plurality or majority
and proportional representation (PR) have found candidate placement in single‐member …

The author argues that cultural pluralism is an enduring attribute of contemporary societies
ethnicity will not disappear with modernization, as it was once believed. In addition, ethnic …

Many scholars have argued that money politics in Japan has been driven in part by the
imperatives of intraparty competition under the single, nontransferable vote (SNTV) system …