Measuring Electoral Systems
Teorell, Jan LU
and Lindstedt, Catharina
(2010)
In Political Research Quarterly
63(2).
p.434-448
- Abstract
- This article compares and assesses four freely available cross-sectional time-series data sets in terms of their information on ballot structure, district structure, and formula of the electoral system in use for lower house and, if relevant, upper house and presidential elections. The authors find that the choice of data source matters for conclusions drawn on the consequences of electoral systems for both party systems and corruption, but that no source can be given prominence over the other on methodological grounds. Students of electoral systems must thus, in the future, make their results sensitive to the choice of data source.
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- Teorell, Jan
LU
and Lindstedt, Catharina
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- publishing date
- 2010
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- Contribution to journal
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- published
- subject
- keywords
- electoral systems, data evaluation, party systems, corruption
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- Political Research Quarterly
- volume
- 63
- issue
- 2
- pages
- 434 - 448
- publisher
- SAGE Publications
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- wos:000278111600016
- scopus:77953062003
- ISSN
- 1938-274X
- DOI
- 10.1177/1065912909349630
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- English
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