GOVT1107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Party System, Arend Lijphart, Electoral District
26 Jul 2018
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Week 10: do institutions matter? (ii) electoral design, party systems, and ethnic conflict (oct. 5) Arend lijphart, patterns of democracy: government forms and performance in thirty-six countries. Second edition (new haven: yale university press, 2012), pp. Lijphart, arend, constitutional choices for new democracies, journal of democracy 2, no. Guy lardeyret, the problem with pr, journal of democracy 2, no. Arend lijphart, democracy in plural societies (new haven: yale university press, 1977), pp. Lisa morj howard, the ethnocracy trap, journal of democracy 23: 4 (october 2012): 155-169. Parties are seen as self-interested, least trusted institutions. Parties let people know who to vote for- makes voting easier. If you didn"t have parties you would have to do research on each one. Politicians have little incentive for the long term- get want to win elections (individual politicians have short time horizons) Parties have longer time horizons- care about their reputations - want to govern well.
