Voting and satisfaction with democracy in flexible-list PR
A vast literature shows that voting for the winning party in elections boosts satisfaction with democracy. But in many list PR systems, voters do not only vote for a party, they can also vote for candidates within parties. Yet, we know very little about how such votes affect voters' satisfaction with democracy. In this paper, we analyse pre- and post-election panel survey data from Belgium, in which we asked respondents to report their vote choice for parties and for candidates. The main finding is that casting a preference vote for a winning candidate makes little difference, as party-list vo... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2018 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | Bol , D , Blais , A , Gillard , X , Nunez , L & Pilet , J-B 2018 , ' Voting and satisfaction with democracy in flexible-list PR ' , ELECTORAL STUDIES , vol. 56 , pp. 23-34 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2018.09.007 |
Schlagwörter: | Electoral system / Proportional representation / Preference vote / Satisfaction with democracy / Belgium |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28532939 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/voting-and-satisfaction-with-democracy-in-flexiblelist-pr(57d2e81c-2706-4441-8605-ac1b4e11ab5a).html |