Electoral Systems and Legislative Cohesion: Comparing First-Past-the-Post and PR

• In Event: Legislative Systems and Electoral Representation

Brief Overview

Closed-list proportional electoral systems give parties more power over their legislators. Using both established methods and novel machine learning techniques, we analyse voting and the wording of speeches in parliament to demonstrate this effect.

Authors

• Matthew Blayney, University of Oxford

• Giovanni Capoccia, University of Oxford