Badanie zależności pomiędzy systemem wyborczym a systemem partyjnym przy wykorzystaniu metody indeksowej. Przypadek mieszanych systemów wyborczych w Rosji i na Ukrainie oraz proporcjonalnej reprezentacji w Polsce

• Authors: Bartłomiej Michalak

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Employing The Index Method in a Research on the Interconnections Between Electoral and Party Systems: An Example of Russian and Ukrainian Mixed Electoral Systems and Polish Proportional Representation

Abstracts

EN

The article describes the most common indicators (so-called indices) and the methods of combining as well as interpreting them in the political science comparative studies. An employment of these indices allows the analysis of the impact of electoral systems on party ones. Using Russian and Ukrainian mixed electoral systems and Polish proportional representation as an example, the author expounds the impact of given elements of electoral systems on configuration of party systems. Proceeding so, he gauges the effects of the influence in question by deploying the so-called effective number of parties formula. The author points out that amongst others effects of this interconnection of systems there is also the impact on the concentration level of party systems. Additionally, this paper debunks a plethora of popular opinions concerning political effects of electoral systems and teaches how one can verify those opinions employing the index method and how to interpret the indices.

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: Athenaeum. Polskie Studia Politologiczne
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 36
• Pages: 94-113

Dates

published

2012

Contributors

author

Bartłomiej Michalak

Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/athena.2012.36.05

Biblioteka Nauki

2165100