Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems (ECPR - Studies in European Political Science) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1907301577 ISBN 13: 9781907301575

Publisher: ECPR Press, 2013

Synopsis

Personal representation is an essential element to achieve a high quality of democracy. Many studies of electoral systems, by focusing on the allocation of seats to parties, have neglected the study of this essential dimension. In democratic countries a huge variety of ballot forms and rules exist to vote for individual candidates and to allocate seats. This book studies different voting procedures and formulas for personal representation, their origins and consequences, their compatibility with party representation and the strategies and normative criteria for electoral system choice.

About this title

About the Author:

Josep M Colomer is Research Professor in Political Science at the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Institute for Economic Analysis, in Barcelona, and Prince of Asturias Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Review:

This book thus contains much extremely valuable material. The chapters are diverse in the issues they address and the methods they use, but this does not detract from their individual merits. Still, much remains to be done. ..The country studies provided here are extremely useful: their findings give useful pointers and generate hypotheses and perationalizations that merit generalization. But most of the work of generalization still lies before us. In short, this valuable book opens up a considerable research agenda that many of us will want to pursue over the coming years. (Alan Renwick, University of Reading)

About this edition

• Publisher: ECPR Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1907301577
• ISBN 13: 9781907301575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Colomer Josep M