*The research reported here was supported by funds granted to the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin by the Office of Economic Opportunity pursuant to provisions of the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. We also acknowledge computation funds from NICHD grant l-P01-HD05876. The conclusions are the sale responsibility of the authors. ABSTRACT Elec~'oraJ,. reform has p...

Few voting systems in the world possess a feature set as rich as the Hungarian electoral law, which incorporates three distinct sets of districts, a mixed-member system, a two-round system (2RS) (using two different criteria for run-off qualification), two potentially separate legal thresholds, two different sets of rules for proportional representation (PR), plus a few additional twists relate...

Can electoral rules be designed to achieve political ideals such as accurate representation of voter preferences and accountable governments? The academic literature commonly divides electoral systems into two types, majoritarian and proportional, and implies a straightforward trade-off by which having more of an ideal that a majoritarian system provides means giving up an equal measure of what...

nowadays, election is one of the important issues in all the countries that their political system is based on democracy. this study investigated the effectiveness of promotional tools on the behavior of voters in the eleventh round of iran's presidential election. in this study, media campaign tools were divided into two categories of media and non-media ones and the effect of each on the vote...