Personal Representation: The Neglected Dimension of Electoral Systems [Paperback]

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.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.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.List of Figures and Tables viContributors ixChapter One: Introduction: Personal and Party Representation Josep M. Colomer 1Chapter Two: Candidate Selection Nir Atmor, Reuven Y. Hazan and Gideon Rahat 21Chapter Three: Single Seat Helen Margetts 37Chapter Four: Closed Party List Pedro Riera 55Chapter Five: Primary Elections John M. Carey and Harry J. Enten 81Chapter Six: Mixed Systems Louis Massicotte 99Chapter Seven: Preferential Vote in Party List Lauri Karvonen 119Chapter Eight: Ordinal Rank Michael Marsh 135Chapter Nine: Open Ballot Georg Lutz 153Bibliography 175Index 187Josep M Colol#%