10 Electoral Systems
Lecture
Required Reading
Boix, C. 1999. ‘Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies,’ American Political Science Review, 93(3): 609-624.
Iversen, T. and Soskice, D. 2006. ‘Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others,’ American Political Science Review, 100(2): 165-181.
Recommended Reading
Lijphart, A. 1999. Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries. New Haven: Yale University Press. Chapter 8.
Gallagher, M. and Mitchell, P. 2008. ‘Introduction to Electoral Systems,’ in The Politics of Electoral Systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 1.