Where Minorities are the Majority: Electoral Rules and Ethnic Representation

• In Event: Ethnicity, Identity and Politics

Brief Overview

This paper finds that PR systems with multimember districts are more effective than majoritarian systems at representing geographically dispersed, but not concentrated groups. Results are based on a new dataset covering 19 countries and 44 elections.

Authors

• John Gerring, The University of Texas at Austin

• Allen Hicken, University of Michigan

• Connor Thomas Jerzak, The University of Texas at Austin

• Robert G. Moser, The University of Texas at Austin

• Erzen Oncel, Ozyegin University