2018/03/01 by Eric Linhart, Johannes Raabe, Patrick Statsch · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Psychology · #Electoral Systems and Political Participation #Gender Politics and Representation #Populism, Right-Wing Movements #Proportional representation #Praise #Reputation #Proportionality (law) #Electoral system #Computer science #Political science #Econometrics #Mathematical economics #Economics #Law #Social psychology #Psychology #Politics
paper · doi:10.1080/17457289.2018.1443464
openalex publication_date 2018/03/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/23
Mixed electoral systems are often associated with the hope of combining proportional election outcomes with a concentrated party system, and thus achieving the best of both worlds in electoral system design. It is especially the mixed-member proportional (MMP) variant that has retained a good reputation in this regard. Via a comparative analysis, we analyze whether or not the general praise for MMP systems is corroborated empirically. Our results show that the performance of MMP systems is heavily influenced by technical details, and elections conducted under MMP vary broadly with regard to possible proportionality–concentration combinations.