If Instant Runoff Voting (IRV) mitigates strategic voting, is that because the rules of the system mechanically reduce strategic opportunities, or because of other more indirect effects? In single-vot
Electoral systems determine the role that representatives’ party affiliations play in political representation. According to conventional expectations, party affiliation drives the behavior of represe
Posterior data for Varieties of Democracy v.5. See [https://curate.nd.edu/articles/dataset/Varieties_of_Democracy_v_5_2016_/24723633] for the codebook describing the variables and their meaning. Each
Considerable evidence suggests that legislative fragmentation can negatively affect the survival of democratic presidential regimes. While there is a vast literature examining the determinants of legi
