Particularism around the World
提供了一个关于选举制度的新数据集,衡量政治家通过迎合狭隘地理选区或政党选区来推进职业生涯的程度,可用于研究选举制度与经济结果之间的联系。
This article presents a new data set on electoral systems and outlines its potential uses in research on the links between electoral systems and economic outcomes. The data measure the extent to which politicians can advance their careers by appealing to narrow geographic constituencies on the one hand or party constituencies on the other.