Counting Votes and Places: The Joint Effect of Electoral Rules and Territory

In almost all the regions of the world, a simple formula on electoral systems seems to hold. Plurality elections with single-seat districts are related to two-party systems or small party systems, whereas proportional representation is often related to large multiparty systems, or, in a slightly different version, the number of parties is related to the district magnitude. This simple electoral system approach does not hold when it is applied to post-communist democracies in Europe. As has been demonstrated in the second chapter of this book, these countries constitute a genuine puzzle for electoral system scholars. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.