Ballot structure, list flexibility and policy representation
| Autor: | Simon Hix, Thomas Däubler |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
021110 strategic
defence & security studies Secret ballot Election threshold Public Administration Sociology and Political Science Spoilt vote business.industry Parliament media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Public relations JA Political science (General) JN101 Great Britain 0506 political science Ballot Primary election Blackballing Political science 050602 political science & public administration Exhaustive ballot business Law and economics media_common |
| Zdroj: | Journal of European Public Policy. 25:1798-1816 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4429 1350-1763 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13501763.2017.1361465 |
| Popis: | There is a growing body of research on the impact of the electoral system ‘ballot structure’ on the behaviour of politicians. We offer a clear, ordinal and rules-based three-way coding (closed, flexible, open) of the electoral systems used in European Parliament elections, taking into account both the ballot type and the intra-party seat-allocation rules. For the notoriously difficult group of flexible list-systems, we show how these operated in the 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections, and introduce an additional behavioural distinction between ‘weakly flexible’ and ‘strongly flexible’ subtypes at the party-list-level. We then illustrate how the type of ballot used in an election can influence individual policy representation by looking at the vote-splits between Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in the European People’s Party in a vote on tackling homophobia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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