Forgetting to make votes count: The role of previous democratic experience

• Autores: Ignacio Lago Peñas , Ferrán Martínez i Coma
• Localización: Electoral Studies: An international Journal, ISSN 0261-3794, Vol. 31, Nº. 2, 2012, págs. 413-421
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1016/j.electstud.2012.01.003
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• Resumen

  • This paper argues that wasted votes in founding elections decrease when countries have a previous democratic experience before the current democratic period. This historical-institutionalist argument is tested with national election results in 22 founding elections in third-wave European, Asian, Latin American and African democracies. The results demonstrate that having a democratic past clearly increases coordination and then reduces the percentage of wasted votes in the founding election, controlling for the electoral system.