|
|
|
C O M P A R A T I V E
P O L I T I C A L P A R T I E S &
L E G I S L A T I V E O R G A N I Z A T
I O N |
The third
stage of the project discussed on the
Political Parties and
Legislative Organization in Japan
page broadens the scope of the
research to incorporate comparisons with legislatures and
parties in other states. This began when I was awarded an
Abe Fellowship (2005-2006) to pursue comparisons of
Japan with
Italy and New Zealand. Now, along with
Matthew Søberg Shugart and Ellis Krauss (both UCSD), I am currently in
the early stages of an ambitious comparative project funded
by the National Science Foundation.

Ellis Krauss, Matt
Shugart, and Robert Pekkanen
T
The project is entitled "Electoral Systems and Party
Personnel: The Consequences of Reform and Non-Reform" and is
funded for three years (2008-2011) by the National Science
Foundation through its Political Science Program. The generous funding of
well over $500,000 allows us
conduct a study that we hope will make important theoretical
and empirical contributions. The Principal Investigators (PIs) are Ellis
Krauss, Robert Pekkanen and Matthew Shugart. Our aim is to
examine how electoral systems affect what we call "party
personnel strategies" (encompassing both party
nomination and ranking strategies as well as party and
legislative organization). To do this, we employ analysis of eight
countries--four of which experienced electoral system change
(the other four are control or "steady-state" cases for us):
Bolivia, Germany, Portugal, Japan, New Zealand, Ukraine,
Lithuania and the United Kingdom. Because of the vast scope
of the project, a number of excellent collaborators will
play a vital role in the project.
Electoral-system types and country cases
|
Electoral System |
Steady-state cases |
Countries changing from this system |
New system for change cases |
|
Nominal (SSD) |
UK |
New Zealand |
MMP |
|
List (PR) |
Portugal |
Bolivia |
MMP |
|
MMM |
Lithuania |
Ukraine |
List (PR) |
|
MMP |
Germany |
-- |
-- |
|
SNTV |
-- |
Japan |
MMM |
SSD= Single
Seat District. PR= Proportional Representation. MMP= Mixed Member Proportional. MMM= Mixed Member
Majoritarian. SNTV= Single Non-Transferable Vote.
|