Monthly Archives: September 2013

Disproportional Outcome despite PR: The 2013 German Federal Election

By Damien Bol | Published: September 27, 2013

by Steffen Zittlau & Thomas Gschwend, University of Mannheim What is the story? The federal election that took place last Sunday (September 22) in Germany has produced a clear winner, the conservative CDU/CSU. Although the party received 41.5% of the votes, it falls short of obtaining an absolute parliamentary majority by 6 seats out of […]

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Election Passport: New Resource on Elections Worldwide

By Damien Bol | Published: September 19, 2013

By David Lublin, Professor at American University http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/dlublin.cfm Goal The goal of Election Passport is to enable researchers and students to engage in high-level analysis of elections on countries for which data are not easily available. From Albania to Zimbabwe, this site provides unusually complete constituency-level election results, including votes won by very small parties, […]

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2014 European elections: A snapshot of three little known electoral systems (3rd part)

By Damien Bol | Published: September 15, 2013

By Fernando Feitosa Ribeiro, Intern at the Université de Montréal What is the story? For the past three weeks, I have been describing the particularities of the electoral system in use to elect members of the European parliament (EP) in three interesting and often forgotten countries. In particular, I focus on the possibilities given to […]

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2014 European elections: A snapshot of three little known electoral systems (2nd part)

By Damien Bol | Published: September 6, 2013

By Fernando Feitosa Ribeiro, Intern at the Université de Montréal What is the story? During three weeks, I describe the particularities of the electoral systems applied to elect the members of the European parliament (EP) in three interesting and often forgotten countries. In particular, I focus on the possibilities given to voters to express their […]

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