Mark Franklin 'Does electoral integrity yield more responsive government?' 29 March 2016
Channel: Electoral Integrity Project
Date: 29/03/2016

Download the paper at: http://bit.ly/1qcSlQs
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This paper investigates party congruence with voters in left-right terms over the period of a quarter century since the late 1980s. By aggregating individual-level data collected for many countries over a long time-period to the birth-year-cohort level, and in conjunction with measures of electoral integrity created by the Electoral Integrity Project and perhaps from other sources, I attempt to determine whether differences in electoral integrity correspond to differences in party responsiveness to changes in voter support and to evolutions in voter preferences. 

The initial version of the paper focuses on West European countries, but I hope to expand this to post-communist countries that are members of the European Union and for which data are available as a result of successive studies of elections to the European Parliament. I hope to be able to build on this start by moving from EES data to data collected at the time of national elections in the same countries and perhaps eventually to other countries included in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems. 

Discussant: Professor Nikolay Marinov (University of Mannheim)
Chair: Professor Pippa Norris (Sydney and Harvard Universities)

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The Electoral Integrity Project is an independent research team based at the University of Sydney and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. It explores many issues, focusing upon three main questions: 

- When do elections meet international standards of electoral integrity? 
- What happens when elections fail to do so? 
- And what can be done to mitigate these problems? 

For more information see: www.electoralintegrityproject.com