Summary details for each election year for the Victorian House of Assembly general elections since 1856. This data includes electoral system characteristics, seats in chamber, number of enrolled voter
Each observation in the National Level Party Systems dataset (NLPS) and the District Level Party Systems dataset (DPLS) is the party system at the national or district level, respectively, in a given
We demonstrate the surprising benefits of legislative redistricting (including partisan gerrymandering) for American representative democracy. In so doing, our analysis resolves two long-standing cont
Stata .dta and .do files for replicating analyses in White and Alcantara, "Do Constraints Limit Opportunism? Incumbent Electoral Performance Before and After (Partially) Fixed-Term Laws"
Despite common perception, existing theoretical literature lacks a complete formal argument regarding the relationship between the electoral rule disproportionality and platform polarization. In this