Context Matters: Partisan Bias and Districted Proportional Representation in Latin American Democracies

• In Event: Fairness, Electoral Competition, and the Quality of Political Representation

Brief Overview

This project analyzes some of the sources of partisan bias in electoral systems in Latin America. I challenge the applicability of ideologically driven partisan bias and point to presidentialism as a salient source of partisan bias in PR systems.

Author

• Rael Almonte Reyes, Binghamton University