District Size and Party Electoral Strength: A Comparison of Sixteen Democracies
- 1 March 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space
- Vol. 12 (3) , 247-262
- https://doi.org/10.1068/a120247
Abstract
Electoral bias is significantly greater in single-member district (Anglo-Saxon) parliamentary systems than in proportional-representation systems. Party advantage related to malapportionment is evident in the United Kingdom, France, Japan, Italy, West Germany, and Ireland, caused by smaller districts in the advantaged party's cores of strength. Regional and rural–urban differences are relatively insignificant.Keywords
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