Author (Person) | Däubler, Thomas, Hix, Simon |
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Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Series Title | Journal of European Public Policy |
Series Details | Volume 25, Number 12, Pages 1798-1816 |
Publication Date | December 2018 |
ISSN | 1350-1763 (print) | 1466-4429 (online) |
Content Type | Journal Article |
Abstract: There is a growing body of research on the impact of the electoral system ‘ballot structure’ on the behaviour of politicians. We offer a clear, ordinal and rules-based three-way coding (closed, flexible, open) of the electoral systems used in European Parliament elections, taking into account both the ballot type and the intra-party seat-allocation rules. For the notoriously difficult group of flexible list-systems, we show how these operated in the 2004, 2009 and 2014 elections, and introduce an additional behavioural distinction between ‘weakly flexible’ and ‘strongly flexible’ subtypes at the party-list-level. We then illustrate how the type of ballot used in an election can influence individual policy representation by looking at the vote-splits between Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) in the European People’s Party in a vote on tackling homophobia. |
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Source Link | Link to Main Source https://doi.org/10.1080/13501763.2017.1361465 |
Subject Categories | Politics and International Relations |
Subject Tags | Electoral Law | Systems, European Parliament Elections |
Keywords | 2004 EP Election, 2009 EP Election, 2014 EP Election, European People's Party [EPP] |
International Organisations | European Union [EU] |