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===== Public support for electoral reform: The role of electoral system experience ===== | |||
[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0261379421000676 by Abigail L. Heller 8/21 Science Direct] | |||
What affects citizen preferences about electoral rules and under what conditions will they support changes to those rules? These questions are critical because in established democracies, citizens increasingly directly influence electoral rules through initiatives or referenda. For example, in New Zealand in 1993, voters overrode the preferences of political elites in two referenda, leading to the introduction of a mixed member proportional (MMP) system for national legislative elections (Vowles 2005). | |||
===== Democratic electoral systems around the world, 1946–2000 ===== | ===== Democratic electoral systems around the world, 1946–2000 ===== | ||
