Political Particularism around the World
Peer Reviewed
Date issued
Jan 2002
Data
Subject
Economy;
Integration and Trade
Category
Working Papers
This paper presents a new dataset on electoral systems and outlines its potential uses in further research exploring the connections between electoral systems and economic outcomes. The dataset provides indicators of the degree to which individual politicians can further their careers by appealing to narrow geographic constituencies on the one hand, or party constituencies on the other.
