TY  - BOOK
AU  - Klingemann,Hans-Dieter
TI  - The comparative study of electoral systems
SN  - 9780199642397
U1  - 324.6 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Elections
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Voting
KW  - Political parties
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 398-418) and index; Ch. 1; The Impact of Political Institutions; Hans-Dieter Klingemann --; Pt. 2; The Project --; Ch. 2; "Big Social Science" in Comparative Politics; Ashley Grosse and Andrew Appleton --; Ch. 3; Methodological Challenges; David A. Howell and Karen Long Jusko --; Pt. 3; Electoral Participation --; Ch. 4; Socio-economic Status and Non-voting; Neil Nevitte, Andre Blais, Elisabeth Gidengil, and Richard Nadeau --; Ch. 5; Electoral System, Efficacy, and Voter Turnout; Susan A. Banducci and Jeffrey A. Karp --; Pt. 4; Political Parties, Candidates, and Issues --; Ch. 6; Multiple Party Identifications; Hermann Schmitt --; Ch. 7; Candidate Recognition in Different Electoral Systems; Soren Holmberg --; Ch. 8; Who Represents Us Best? One Member or Many?; John Curtice and W. Phillips Shively --; Ch. 9; Economic Voting / Yoshitaka Nishizawa --; Yoshitaka Nishizawa --; Ch. 10; The Ease of Ideological Voting; Martin Kroh --; Ch. 11; How Voters Cope With the Complexity of Their Political Environment; Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Bernhard Wessels --; Pt. 5; Expressive and Instrumental Voting --; Ch. 12; Expressive versus Instrumental Motivation of Turnout, Partisanship, and Political Learning /; Gabor Toka --; Ch. 13; District Magnitude and the Comparative Study of Strategic Voting; Thomas Gschwend  --; Pt. 6; Political Support --; Ch. 14; Institutional Variation and Political Support: An Analysis of CSES Data from 29 Countries; Ola Listhaug, Bernt Aardal, and Ingunn Opheim Ellis --; Ch. 15. Effectiveness and Political Support in Old and New Democracies; Jacques Thomassen and Henk van der Kolk --
N2  - Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections governed by rules of proportional representation or plurality. Political commentators seem to know how such rules influence political behaviour. They firmly believe, for example, that candidates running in plurality systems are better known and held more accountable to their constituencies than candidates competing in elections governed by proportional representation. However, such assertions rest on shaky ground simply because solid empirical knowledge to evaluate the impact of political institutions on individual political behaviour is still lacking. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems has collected data on political institutions and on individual political behaviour and scrutinized it carefully. In line with common wisdom results of most analyses presented in this volume confirm that political institutions matter for individual political behaviour but, contrary to what is widely believed, they do not matter much
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