Preface; About the Contributors; List of Figures; List of Tables; Part I. Introduction; Part II. The Project; Part III. Electoral Participation; Part IV. Political Parties, Candidates, and Issues; Part V. Expressive and Instrumental Voting; Part VI. Political Support; Appendix 1: Final Report of the 1995-6 Planning Committee; Appendix 2: The Micro-Level Questionnaire of Module 1; Appendix 3: The Macro-Level Questionnaire of Module 1; References; Index
Summary
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems systematically deals with the question of the impact of institutions on political behaviour. It provides comparative data on the micro- and the macro-level to study electoral behaviour empirically across a broad range of institutional contexts. - ;Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections governed by rules of proportional representation or plurality. Political commentators seem to know how such rules influence political behaviour. They firmly believe, for example
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 398-418) and index
