Electoral Abuse in PR Systems: Old and New Territorial Distortions in the German Electoral System

G. Capoccia

Working Papers from European Institute - Political and Social Sciences

Abstract: Notwithstanding the essentially proportional nature of the German electoral system, the two-tier system of districts, and the complex counting procedure that it entails have rendered it liable to some of the consequences of a well-known form of "electoral abuse", malapportionment. Moreover, the division of the territory of application for the threshold of exclusion, introduced temporarily for the elections of December 1990, has given rise to other possible forms of electoral-territorial distortion, labelled here as "quasi-malapportionment" and "quasi-gerrymandering". These factors have had, in some cases, a remarkable political impact on German political life.

Keywords: ELECTIONS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D72 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1997
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