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Electoral Institutions and Intraparty Cohesion
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Orestis Troumpounis,
Janne Tukiainen,
Dimitrios Xefteris
Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 883 - 916
Swansea University Author:
Riikka Savolainen
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DOI (Published version): 10.1086/731286
Abstract
By utilizing unique data capturing candidates’ ideological positions in Finnish municipal elections and leveraging exogenous changes in council size at different population thresholds as a proxy for electoral rule disproportionality and the expected advantage to the election winner, we identify a po...
| Published in: | Journal of Political Economy Microeconomics |
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| ISSN: | 2832-9368 2832-9376 |
| Published: |
University of Chicago Press
2024
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa65736 |
| Abstract: |
By utilizing unique data capturing candidates’ ideological positions in Finnish municipal elections and leveraging exogenous changes in council size at different population thresholds as a proxy for electoral rule disproportionality and the expected advantage to the election winner, we identify a positive effect of council size on party cohesion. We propose the following mechanism: if a more diverse set of candidates is electorally appealing but less efficient in serving policy-related goals, parties face weaker incentives to maintain cohesion in institutional settings, such as smaller councils, which reward higher vote shares more generously. |
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| Keywords: |
Electoral systems; ideological heterogeneity; party cohesion; proportional representation; regression discontinuity design |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Funders: |
This research is funded by the European Union (Tukiainen, European Research Council, INTRAPOL, grant 101045239). |
| Issue: |
4 |
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883 |
| End Page: |
916 |