Weimar versus FPTP: The Role of Majoritarian Electoral Systems in Enabling Autocratizers

• In Event: Governance and Electoral Dynamics in Europe

Brief Overview

No-threshold list PR is often blamed for allowing Hitler to take over Germany; yet since 1945, majoritarian systems have been worse at preserving democracy than PR systems. We investigate how the electoral and party system impacts de-democratizing.

Authors

• Agnes Katalin Koos, University of Nevada, Reno

• Kenneth Paul Keulman, Loyola University New Orleans