In Situ and Laboratory Experiments on Electoral Law Reform French Presidential Elections /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Dolez, Bernard (Editor), Grofman, Bernard (Editor), Laurent, Annie (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Series: Studies in Public Choice, 25
• Subjects: Political science.; Economic theory.; Social sciences.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.

In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to ch...

Table of Contents:

• Editors’ Introduction: The Role of Controlled Experiments in Evaluating Proposed Institutional Reforms
• Election by Majority Judgement: Experimental Evidence
• French Presidential Elections: A Field Experiment on the Single Transferable Vote
• A Framed Field Experiment on Approval Voting and Evaluation Voting
• Lessons From In Situ Experiments during French Elections
• Measuring Duvergerian Effects of the French Majority Runoff System with Laboratory Experiments
• French Double Ballot Effects: American Experiments.