Studying Electoral Engineering via a Double-Barrelled Natural Experiment: Comparing the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan

Daniela Giannetti,Steven R Reed,Bernard Grofman

doi:10.1007/978-88-470-2568-4_10

Studying Electoral Engineering via a Double-Barrelled Natural Experiment: Comparing the Long Run Consequences of 1990s Electoral Reform in Italy and Japan

Daniela Giannetti, Steven R Reed + Show 1 more

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2568-4_10

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2014

Citations: 12

Affiliation: Chuo University, University of California, Irvine, University of Bologna

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Drawing on a comparison of the origins and effects of the electoral reforms in Italy and Japan in the early 1990s that led to the implementation of a mixed election system in both countries, we look at the extent to which changes in electoral systems are mere paper tigers in terms of having important impacts on party systems and ways of doing political business.

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