Ruth Dassonneville - Electoral Rules and Electoral Behaviour: The Scope of Effects

Across representative democracies, there is a strong variation in the rules that govern the electoral process. A classic insight in political science is that these rules, e.g., the presence of a majoritarian or a proportional system have a profound effect on the way a democracy functions. We know less however, about the way voters actually respond to these electoral rules. This kind of effect presupposes that voters not only are aware of the electoral system, but also that they adapt to the incentives offered by the system. In this volume, a group of international scholars investigate whether this is indeed the case. The various chapters in this volume deal with the effect of proportionality, mixed-member systems, compulsory voting and preferential voting. The chapters are based on recent data and state-of-the-art methods. The introduction confronts the findings of the various chapters with the allegedly universal validity of vote choice models in the literature. The research presented in this volume mainly deals with elections in Europe, but the findings speak to the broader community of electoral scholars.

This book was originally published as a special issue of West European Politics.

Ruth Dassonneville is Assistant Professor at the Universit de Montral, Canada.

Marc Hooghe is Professor of Political Science at the University of Leuven, Belgium.

Michael S. Lewis-Beck is F. Wendell Miller Distinguished Professor at the University of Iowa, USA.

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The Scope of Effects

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The Scope of Effects

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Ruth Dassonneville, Marc Hooghe and Michael S. Lewis-Beck

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The chapters in this book were originally published in West European Politics, volume 40, issue 3 (May 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:

Chapter 1

Do electoral rules have an effect on electoral behaviour? An impact assessment

Ruth Dassonneville, Marc Hooghe and Michael S. Lewis-Beck

West European Politics, volume 40, issue 3 (May 2017), pp. 503515

Chapter 2

Candidate-centred electoral systems and voter turnout

Peter Sderlund

West European Politics, volume 40, issue 3 (May 2017), pp. 516533

Chapter 3

Rules, institutions and the economic vote: clarifying clarity of responsibility

Ruth Dassonneville and Michael S. Lewis-Beck

West European Politics, volume 40, issue 3 (May 2017), pp. 534559

Chapter 4

The electoral consequences of austerity: economic policy voting in Europe in times of crisis

Liisa Talving

West European Politics, volume 40, issue 3 (May 2017), pp. 560583

Chapter 5

Ticket-splitting in mixed-member systems: on the importance of seat linkage between electoral tiers

Pedro Riera and Damien Bol

West European Politics, volume 40, issue 3 (May 2017), pp. 584597

Chapter 6

Too much choice, too little impact: a multilevel analysis of the contextual determinants of preference voting