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Sixty years of democratic representation in Germany allow us to study the working of a specific type of electoral system, namely a mixed system combining proportional and majoritarian rules, in great detail. Mixed systems have figured as a reference point in many reform debates of the recent past. This is because they appear to combine advantageous traits of proportional and majoritarian rules, such as fairness, proximity between constituencies and representatives, and stable government majorities. Mixed systems have also attracted much scholarly attention of late, because they allow us to study the effects of electoral rules while holding many intervening variables constant. But they also attract interest because the proportional and majoritarian electoral tiers affect each other in ways that differ from what would have resulted under pure PR or plurality. All this makes mixed systems a fascinating object of study, and the German system is its oldest and prototypical exemplar.
Contents
Contents
List of Figures and Tables vii
List of Abbreviations xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Preface xix
Chapter One – Introduction 1
PART I – PARTIES IN GERMANY'S MIXED-ELECTORAL SYSTEM 19
Chapter Two – The Contaminated Cube Rule 21
Chapter Three – Of the Cannibalistic Consequences 43
Chapter Four – Contesting Districts: Why small parties
enter (hopeless) district races 61
Chapter Five – Coordinating: Locally or nationally? Or what if German
parties suddenly behaved in a Duvergerian fashion? 87
PART II – CANDIDATES IN GERMANY'S MIXED
ELECTORAL SYSTEM 105
Chapter Six – Candidatures: Turning candidates into MPs 107
Chapter Seven – Combining Candidatures: Hedging against
electoral uncertainty 127
PART III – MPS IN GERMANY'S MIXED ELECTORAL SYSTEM 143
Chapter Eight – Careers: Electoral rules and legislative turnover 145
Chapter Nine – Characteristics: Electoral pathways to the
Bundestag and MPs' parliamentary strategies 159
Chapter Ten – Conclusion 181
Appendix to Chapter Two 189
Bibliography 195
Index 209
