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===== The Electoral Sweet Spot: Low-Magnitude Proportional Electoral Systems ===== | |||
[https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5907.2010.00495.x by John M Carey 1/2/11 AJPS | |||
A glance at the electoral systems of new democracies, or reforms to electoral systems in established democracies, suggests that electoral engineers regularly seek to soften the representation-accountability trade-off and achieve both objectives. For example, some electoral systems have small multimember districts, others have high legal thresholds below which parties cannot win seats, while others have “parallel” mixed-member systems, where the PR seats do not compensate for disproportional outcomes in the single-member seats. These types of systems sacrifice pure proportionality for the specific purpose of increasing accountability. | |||
===== Women’s representation in politics: The effect of electoral systems ===== | ===== Women’s representation in politics: The effect of electoral systems ===== | ||
