District magnitude and representation of the majority’s preferences—a reply and new perspectives

Marco Portmann, David Stadelmann and Reiner Eichenberger ()

Public Choice, 2013, vol. 154, issue 1, 149-151

Abstract: We reply to the comment of John Carey and Simon Hix on our original contribution entitled “District Magnitude and Representation of the Majority’s Preferences: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from Popular and Parliamentary Votes” in Public Choice 151:585–610 ( 2012 ). District magnitude does not necessarily affect deviations between political representatives and their district voters in a strictly monotonic way but monotonicity is upheld for deviations between representatives and the national majority. We provide new perspectives and caution against evaluating electoral systems by focusing on individual politicians’ behavior but neglecting aggregation effects. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media New York 2013

Keywords: Political representation; Electoral systems; District magnitude; Voting behavior; D78; D70; D80 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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