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Replication Data for "Linking Party Preferences and the Composition of Government: A New Standard for Evaluating the Performance of Electoral Democracy"

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Title Replication Data for "Linking Party Preferences and the Composition of Government: A New Standard for Evaluating the Performance of Electoral Democracy"
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/4U6TQA
 
Creator Blais, André
Guntermann, Eric
Bodet, Marc André
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description We propose a new standard to evaluate the performance of electoral democracies: the correspondence between citizens’ party preferences and the party composition of governments that are formed after elections. We develop three criteria for assessing such correspondence: the proportion of citizens whose most preferred party is in government, whether the party that is most liked overall is in government, and how much more positively governing parties are rated than non-governing parties. We pay particular attention to the last criterion, which takes into account how each citizen feels about each of the parties as well as the intensity of their preferences. We find that PR systems perform better on the first criterion. Majoritarian systems do better on the last two.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Contributor Guntermann, Eric