Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214507 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2012-03
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
Electoral systems determine the role party affiliations play in political representation. According to conventional expectations, politicians' party affiliations should influence political representation when they are elected by proportional representation. In contrast, majoritarian systems force politicians to converge to the median position of their constituents, and party affiliation should play no or at least a much smaller role. We test these predictions with unique quasi-experimental data within a common party system by matching referenda decisions of constituents with voting behavior of their representatives, who are elected either by a majoritarian system or proportional representation.
Subjects: 
Constituents' Preferences
Party Influence
Median Voter Model
Political Economy
JEL: 
D7
H7
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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