Personalization of electoral politics under mixed-member proportional systems

• In Event: Subnational Coalitions and Institutions

Brief Overview

Utilizing German Bundestag election data since 2002, our study demonstrates that the presence of party leaders affects party performance in both tiers of mixed-member proportional systems in different and partly interactive ways.

Authors

• Susumu Shikano, University of Konstanz

• Anna Werner, University of Konstanz