This topical book analyses the change of electoral rules in Italy from proportional representation toward plurality. While Italy is used as the illustrative case, the analysis has far-ranging theoretical and practical implications, and will therefore be of interest to academics and researchers...

The role of institutions as determinants of rent seeking success is well established. In this paper, we focus on institutions that have received little attention in the literature, namely electoral institutions. We examine three measures of electoral institutional structure that are hypothesized...

A crucial property of an electoral system is the manner in which it translates a vote distribution into a pattern of representation. Measures of this property are important in assessing the relative merits of differing electoral systems. I argue that indices that do not use the vote and seat...