Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics
The current paper focuses on the Spanish electoral rules governing political competition for the central “Congreso de los Diputados”. It is well-documented that the system as a whole has traditionally favoured one or the other of the two main political parties (PP and PSOE) at the expense o...
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| description | The current paper focuses on the Spanish electoral rules governing political
competition for the central “Congreso de los Diputados”. It is
well-documented that the system as a whole has traditionally favoured one or
the other of the two main political parties (PP and PSOE) at the expense of
proportionality and the remaining political parties. This paper focuses on
some key Spanish electoral rules and investigates how much the observed
biases could be altered by introducing some alternative rules taken from the
Swedish electoral system, ceteris paribus. Measures of disproportionality
are made through the Loosemore-Hanby index and the Gallagher index. The
electoral raw data used for our estimations comes from the 2011, 2015 and
2016 last three Spanish general elections. The basic contribution of the
paper is an empirical one as it provides a new example that institutions
matter for results. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ce63458c064844ca9a2971e164d1e4342022-12-21T21:32:03ZengEconomists' Association of VojvodinaPanoeconomicus1452-595X2217-23862021-01-0168453155410.2298/PAN180725022P1452-595X1900022PKey electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politicsPavía José M.0Toboso Fernando1University of Valencia, Applied Economics Departmentm, SpainUniversity of Valencia, Applied Economics Departmentm, SpainThe current paper focuses on the Spanish electoral rules governing political competition for the central “Congreso de los Diputados”. It is well-documented that the system as a whole has traditionally favoured one or the other of the two main political parties (PP and PSOE) at the expense of proportionality and the remaining political parties. This paper focuses on some key Spanish electoral rules and investigates how much the observed biases could be altered by introducing some alternative rules taken from the Swedish electoral system, ceteris paribus. Measures of disproportionality are made through the Loosemore-Hanby index and the Gallagher index. The electoral raw data used for our estimations comes from the 2011, 2015 and 2016 last three Spanish general elections. The basic contribution of the paper is an empirical one as it provides a new example that institutions matter for results.http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1452-595X/2021/1452-595X1900022P.pdfinstitutionsinstitutional changesspanish electoral rulesadapted swedish electoral rulesproportionalitypartisan biasquantitative estimations |
| spellingShingle | Pavía José M. Toboso Fernando Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics Panoeconomicus institutions institutional changes spanish electoral rules adapted swedish electoral rules proportionality partisan bias quantitative estimations |
| title | Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics |
| title_full | Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics |
| title_fullStr | Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics |
| title_full_unstemmed | Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics |
| title_short | Key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in Spanish politics |
| title_sort | key electoral institutions and rules influencing proportionality and partisan bias in spanish politics |
| topic | institutions institutional changes spanish electoral rules adapted swedish electoral rules proportionality partisan bias quantitative estimations |
| url | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1452-595X/2021/1452-595X1900022P.pdf |
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