The Importance of Electoral Systems

Giovanni Sartori
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Giovanni Sartori: Columbia University

Chapter 3 in Comparative Constitutional Engineering, 1994, pp 27-52 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The importance of electoral systems has long been downgraded. A large majority of scholars have argued i) that they are not an independent variable, and/or ii) that their effects are, at best, uncertain. Both arguments are demonstrably wrong.

Keywords: Electoral System; Vote Share; Party System; Counting Rule; Parliamentary System (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1994
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-22861-4_3

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