To have your cake and eat it too: accountability under a preferential voting system
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2014-06
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Europejskie Stowarzyszenie Studentów Prawa ELSA Poznań
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Informed by the findings in the economic voting literature and using an original dataset on Polish elections this research breaks away from this established practice and goes a step further
by showing how economic conditions allow voters to distinguish between high/low performers and effectively attribute responsibility under open-list PR systems where voters can choose not only among parties but also among individual candidates. By integrating open-list design into
the model of accountability this study transforms the way we think about the very act of voting.
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Voting rights regulations, preferential voting system, accountability system
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Adam Mickiewicz University Law Review, vol. 3, 2014, s. 167-198