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03730aam a2200421 i 4500 001 46D8DA8C4DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 003 SILO 005 20180502010046 008 170608t20172017enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017026036 020 $a 1108417027 020 $a 9781108417020 (hbk.) 020 $a 110840426X 020 $a 9781108404266 035 $a (OCoLC)989025792 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d ERD $d RCJ $d OCLCA $d EQO $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a JF1001 S537 2017 100 1 $a Shugart, Matthew Soberg, $d 1960- $e author. 245 10 $a Votes from seats : $b logical models of electoral systems / $c Matthew S. Shugart, University of California, Davis ; Rein Taagepera, University of California, Irvine. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2017. 300 $a xvi, 343 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 00 $g Conclusion: $t Substance and method. $t Components of simple electoral systems -- $t Components of complex and composite electoral systems -- $t The number of parties and proportionality : two key tools for analysis -- $t Examples of electoral systems : nationwide PR in Israel and FPTP in Trinidad and Tobago, and India -- $t Examples of electoral systems : districted PR and list type in Finland, Portugal, and elsewhere -- $t The seat product model of the effective number of assembly parties -- $t Winners plus one : how we get votes from seats -- $t Basic laws of party seats and votes : and application to deviation from proportionality -- $t All politics is national? : how "embeddedness" in a national assembly system shapes votes and seats in a district -- $t Coattails upside down : how assembly elections shape presidential elections -- $t How election timing matters in presidential democracy : and how it does not -- $t How electoral systems shape candidate vote shares -- $t Pooling or its absence : nomination and alliance behavior -- $t Extending the seat product model : upper tiers and ethnic diversity -- $t Complexities in electoral systems : do simple models work anyway? -- $g Conclusion: $t Substance and method. 520 $a "Take the number of seats in a representative assembly and the number of seats in districts through which this assembly is elected. From just these two numbers, the authors...show that it is possible to deduce the number of parties in the assembly and in the electorate, as well as the size of the largest party. Inside parties, the vote distributions of individual candidates likewise follow predictable patterns. Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using scientific approaches rare in social sciences. Both complex and simple electoral systems are covered, and the book offers a set of 'best practices' for electoral system design. The ability to predict so much from so little, and to apply to countries worldwide, is an advance in the systematic analysis of a core institutional feature found in any democracy, and points the way towards making social sciences more predictive."-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Elections $x Mathematical models. 650 0 $a Election districts $x Mathematical models. 650 0 $a Legislative bodies $x Mathematical models. 650 0 $a Representative government and representation $x Mathematical models. 700 1 $a Taagepera, Rein, $e author. 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781108271196 941 $a 4 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20230718093033.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191214022613.0 952 $l SOAX911 $d 20190223021603.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20180605014023.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=46D8DA8C4DCE11E89F5D1D5C97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search