Carey, John M. and Hix, Simon (2013) District magnitude and representation of the majority's preferences: a comment and reinterpretation. Public Choice, 154 (1-2). pp. 139-148. ISSN 0048-5829
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Drawing on new data that combine recorded votes from the Swiss National Assembly with canton-level referendum results on identical legislative proposals, Portmann et al. (Public Choice 151:585-610, 2012) develop an innovative strategy to identify the effect of district magnitude on the relationship between representatives and their constituents. We replicate PSE's central result and also estimate a related model that allows for the possibility of non-monotonicity in the relationship between district magnitude and representatives' deviance from referendum median voters. Our results indicate that representatives elected in low-magnitude multi-member districts deviate from canton-level majorities less than either MPs from single-member districts or those from high-magnitude multi-member districts.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/journal/11127 |
| Additional Information: | © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media New York |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Dec 2012 09:31 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Jan 2024 07:18 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/47669 |
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