Proportional Representation, the Single Transferable Vote, and Electoral PragmatismAn exploration of competing electoral systems—single-member district plurality systems (predominant in the U.S.) versus proportional representation systems (STV in particular)—and competing theories......
This group of battlegrounds is very likely to provide us with the eventual “tipping-point” state in the 2024 presidential election. If we line up each state (and the congressional districtsin Maine and Nebraska) by how large the margin of victory is for the winner of that state...
DavidAssociateM.AssociateFarrellAssociateInformaworldBritish Elections & Parties YearbookBowler, S. & Farrell, D. (1996) Voter strategies under preferential electoral systems: a single stransferable vote mock ballot survey of London voters, in: C. Rallings, D. Farrell, D. Broughton & D. Denver...
In the 2011 Irish general election, held in the midst of the economic crisis, electoral reform was catapulted to the top of the agenda, with all of the political parties including proposals for electoral reform in their manifestos. The matter was subsequently given to the Irish Constitutional Co...
In particular, it analyses the influence of electoral systems on legislators' representations in terms of a pattern of policy areas represented by them. By comparing legislators' behaviour under Japan's multi-member district, single non-transferable vote and single-member district systems, I ...
Single transferable vote (STV), multimember district proportional representation method of election in which a voter ranks candidates in order of preference. As candidates pass a specified electoral quota, they are elected and their surplus votes apporti
Electoral ReformLocal Government ElectionsThe 2007 Scottish Local Government Elections saw the first large scale use of the Single Transferable Vote (STV) in a mainland election in Britain. This presented a range of challenges for Scotland's political parties, more familiar with campaigning under ...
Bowler, S. & Farrell, D. (1996) Voter strategies under preferential electoral systems: a single stransferable vote mock ballot survey of London voters, in: C. Rallings, D. Farrell, D. Broughton & D. Denver (Eds), British Elections and Parties Yearbook, 1995 (London: Frank Cass)....
In particular, it analyses the influence of electoral systems on legislators' representations in terms of a pattern of policy areas represented by them. By comparing legislators' behaviour under Japan's multi-member district, single non-transferable vote and single-member district systems, I ...
The effects of campaign spending on electoral outcomes remains relatively untested in comparative, multiparty contexts. Spending effects under the Single-Transferable Vote (STV) electoral system have received almost no attention from political scientists but that system's facilitation of candidate centered ...