Preference Voting in Open-list PR and Ethnic Minority Representation

• In Event: Voting Behavior in Europe

Brief Overview

Using an original dataset from the 2017 Latvian local elections, we test how preference voting under open-list PR affects the success of ethnic minority—and majority—candidates competing on the same local party list with various ethnic electorates.

Authors

• Stephen Rhyne Bloom, Southern Illinois University

• Frank C. Thames, Texas Tech University