选举制度和议会规模

IF 2.9 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Electoral Studies Pub Date : 2025-03-13 DOI:10.1016/j.electstud.2025.102922

Simon Otjes

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摘要

议会规模的立方根规则是政治科学中最重要的关系之一。Taagepera（1972）给出了它的理论基础。它的基础是，当代表之间以及公民与代表之间的沟通渠道数量最少时，集会规模是最佳的。本文认为，如果一个人遵循立方根法则的逻辑，比例选举制度应该与更大的议会联系在一起：在这种情况下，公民可以与不止一个代表交流。这些额外的链接将导致更大的程序集。这篇文章在128个国家的议会或下议院进行了测试。它发现了选举制度对议会规模的重要性的有力证据。

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Electoral systems and assembly size

The cube-root rules of assembly size is one of the strongest relationships in political science. Its theoretical underpinning is given by Taagepera (1972). It is based on the notion that assembly size is optimal when the number of communication channels between representatives among themselves and between citizens and their representative is minimal. This article argues that if one follows the logic of the cube-root rule, proportional electoral systems should be associated with greater assemblies: in that case citizens can communicate with more than one representative. This additional links will result in larger assemblies. This article tests this in 128 national parliaments or lower houses. It finds strong evidence for the importance of electoral systems for assembly size.

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Electoral Studies POLITICAL SCIENCE-

CiteScore

3.40

自引率

13.00%

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审稿时长

67 days

期刊介绍： Electoral Studies is an international journal covering all aspects of voting, the central act in the democratic process. Political scientists, economists, sociologists, game theorists, geographers, contemporary historians and lawyers have common, and overlapping, interests in what causes voters to act as they do, and the consequences. Electoral Studies provides a forum for these diverse approaches. It publishes fully refereed papers, both theoretical and empirical, on such topics as relationships between votes and seats, and between election outcomes and politicians reactions; historical, sociological, or geographical correlates of voting behaviour; rational choice analysis of political acts, and critiques of such analyses.