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Jan Teorell & Catharina Lindstedt, "Assessing Cross-National Data on Electoral Systems," May 2009
Abstract
This article compares and assesses four freely available cross-sectional time-series data sets in terms of their information on ballot structure, district structure and formula of the electoral system in use for lower house and, if relevant, upper house and presidential elections. We find that the choice of data source matters for conclusions drawn on the consequences of electoral systems for both party systems and corruption, but that no source can be given prominence over the other on methodological grounds. Students of electoral systems must thus, in the future, make their results sensitive to the choice of data source.




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