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The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems By Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems by Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)

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The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems systematically deals with the question of the impact of institutions on political behaviour. It provides comparative data on the micro- and the macro-level to study electoral behaviour empirically across a broad range of institutional contexts.

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems Summary

The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems by Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)

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.

About Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)

Hans-Dieter Klingemann earned his academic degrees from the University of Cologne (1966: Dr. rer. pol.) and from the University of Mannheim (1978: Dr. habil.). He has held academic positions at the University of Cologne (1966-74), the Center for Survey Research (ZUMA), Mannheim (1974-80), the Free University of Berlin (1980-2002), and the Social Science Research Center Berlin (1989-2003). In the profession Professor Klingemann has served as Vice-President (1982/83) and President of the International Society of Political Psychology (1986/87), as member of the Executive Committee of the European Consortium for Political Research (1988/94), as Vice-President of the International Political Science Association (1994/97), as President of the German Paul Lazarsfeld-Society (1994/99), and as President of the European Political Science Network (2002-2005).

Table of Contents

Preface ; Foreword ; About the Contributors ; PART I INTRODUCTION ; 1. The Impact of Political Institutions ; PART II THE PROJECT ; 2. 'Big Social Science' in Comparative Politics ; 3. Methodological Challenges ; PART III ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION ; 4. Socio-economic Status and Non-voting ; 5. Electoral Systems, Efficacy, and Voter Turnout ; PART IV POLITICAL PARTIES, CANDIDATES, AND ISSUES ; 6. Multiple Party Identifications ; 7. Candidate Recognition in Different Electoral Systems ; 8. Who Represents Us Best? One Member or Many? ; 9. Economic Voting ; 10. The Ease of Ideological Voting ; 11. How Voters Cope With the Complexity of Their Political Environment ; PART V EXPRESSIVE AND INSTRUMENTAL VOTING ; 12. Expressive versus Instrumental Motivation of Turnout, Partisanship, and Political Learning ; 13. District Magnitude and the Comparative Study of Strategic Voting ; PART VI POLITICAL SUPPORT ; 14. Institutional Variation and Political Support: An Analysis of CSES Data from 29 Countries ; 15. Effectiveness and Political Support in Old and New Democracies ; Appendix 1: Final Report of the 1995-6 Planning Committee ; Appendix 2: The micro-level questionnaire of Module 1 ; Appendix 3: The macro-level questionnaire of Module 1 ; References ; Index

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NPB9780199217359
9780199217359
0199217351
The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems by Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)
Hans-Dieter Klingemann (Professor Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin.)
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Oxford University Press
2009-02-05
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