LEADER 04296nam 22006852 450 001 9910779344503321 005 20151005020623.0 010 $a1-316-09005-1 010 $a1-139-57965-7 010 $a1-107-25465-5 010 $a1-139-57283-0 010 $a1-139-17894-6 010 $a1-139-57108-7 010 $a1-139-56927-9 010 $a1-283-71556-2 010 $a1-139-57017-X 035 $a(CKB)2550000000708230 035 $a(EBL)1025058 035 $a(OCoLC)815287701 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755567 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11393160 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755567 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10730543 035 $a(PQKB)11310676 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139178945 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1025058 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10614473 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL402806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1025058 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000708230 100 $a20111104d2012|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aElectoral systems and political context $ehow the effects of rules vary across new and established democracies /$fRobert G. Moser, University of Texas, Austin, Ethan Scheiner, University of California, Davis$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2012. 215 $a1 online resource (xix, 284 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-02542-7 311 $a1-107-60799-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: why don't electoral rules have the same effects in all countries?; 2. When do the effects of electoral systems diverge from our expectations?; 3. Mixed-member electoral systems: how they work and how they work for scholars; 4. How democratic experience and party system development condition the effects of electoral rules on disproportionality and the number of parties: theory, measurement, and expectations; 5. How democratic experience and party system development condition the effects of electoral rules on disproportionality and the number of parties: what we actually see; 6. Political context, electoral rules, and their effects on strategic and personal voting; 7. How democratic experience and party system development condition the effect of electoral rules on strategic defection; 8. Social diversity, electoral rules, and the number of parties; 9. How political context shapes the effect of electoral rules on women's representation; 10. Conclusion: why and how political context matters for electoral system effects. 330 $aElectoral Systems and Political Context illustrates how political and social context conditions the effects of electoral rules. The book examines electoral behavior and outcomes in countries that use 'mixed-member' electoral systems - where voters cast one ballot for a party list under proportional representation (PR) and one for a candidate in a single member district (SMD). Based on comparisons of outcomes under the two different rules used in mixed-member systems, the book highlights how electoral systems' effects - especially strategic voting, the number of parties and women's representation - tend to be different in new democracies from what one usually sees in established democracies. Moreover, electoral systems such as SMDs are usually presumed to constrain the number of parties irrespective of the level of social diversity, but this book demonstrates that social diversity frequently shapes party fragmentation even under such restrictive rules. 517 3 $aElectoral Systems & Political Context 606 $aProportional representation 606 $aComparative government 615 0$aProportional representation. 615 0$aComparative government. 676 $a324.6 686 $aPOL000000$2bisacsh 700 $aMoser$b Robert G.$f1966-$0566300 702 $aScheiner$b Ethan$f1968- 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910779344503321 996 $aElectoral systems and political context$93726196 997 $aUNINA