Location, Location, Location: Party Strategies in Open-List Proportional Representation Systems

• In Event: Location, Location, Location: The Geography of Political Representation

Brief Overview

What is the best strategy for parties in open-list proportional systems? How many candidates should they run? Where should campaigns focus? This article presents a location model to answer these questions, tested with geolocated data from Brazil.

Author

• Fernando Guarnieri, Iesp-Uerj