To have your cake and eat it too: accountability under a preferential voting system

• Authors: Anna Mikulska
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Informed by the findings in the economic voting literature and using an original dataset on Polish elections this research breaks away from this established practice and goes a step further by showing how economic conditions allow voters to distinguish between high/low performers and effectively attribute responsibility under open-list PR systems where voters can choose not only among parties but also among individual candidates. By integrating open-list design into the model of accountability this study transforms the way we think about the very act of voting.

Keywords

PL

Voting rights regulations; preferential voting system; accountability system

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 3
• Pages: 167-198

Dates

published

2014-06-30

Contributors

author

Anna Mikulska

Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/ppuam.2014.3.11