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    What voting rules do citizens prefer?

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    Le systĂšme Ă©lectoral fait de plus en plus objet de dĂ©bats et de discussions au Canada et ailleurs dans le monde. Bien qu’il existe de nombreuses Ă©tudes sur les avantages et les inconvĂ©nients des diffĂ©rents systĂšmes Ă©lectoraux, trĂšs peu d’entre elles examinent les prĂ©fĂ©rences des citoyens concernant les modes de scrutin et plus particuliĂšrement la façon dont les individus expriment leur choix sur le bulletin de vote. Dans le cadre de ce mĂ©moire, je m’attarde aux questions suivantes : quelle façon de voter les citoyens prĂ©fĂšrent-ils et pourquoi ? Afin de rĂ©pondre Ă  ces questions, j'ai menĂ© une expĂ©rience en laboratoire avec prĂšs de 200 participants dans le cadre des Ă©lections fĂ©dĂ©rales canadiennes de 2019. Les participants furent invitĂ©s Ă  voter dans une sĂ©rie d'Ă©lections en utilisant chacune des trois façons de voter suivantes en ordre alĂ©atoire : scrutin Ă  vote unique, vote par approbation et vote par rangement. AprĂšs chaque vote, les participants furent informĂ©s du rĂ©sultat Ă©lectoral dans leur groupe et interrogĂ©s sur leur niveau de satisfaction Ă  l'Ă©gard de chaque façon de voter. Les rĂ©sultats dĂ©montrent que les citoyens prĂ©fĂšrent avoir la possibilitĂ© de classer les partis plutĂŽt que d'utiliser un scrutin Ă  vote unique ou un vote par approbation. Les individus sont Ă©galement plus susceptibles d’aimer un mode scrutin lorsqu'ils sont satisfaits des rĂ©sultats de l’élection.Debates over which electoral system would best serve the general public are on the rise in Canada and in other democratic countries. Although there exists a rich literature on the benefits and shortcomings of different electoral systems, very few studies examine citizens’ preferences regarding voting rules and the ways in which individuals can cast their vote. In this paper, I address the following questions: What voting rules do citizens prefer and why? To address these questions, I conducted a within-subject laboratory experiment with nearly 200 participants in the run up to the 2019 Canadian federal election. Participants were asked to vote in a set of elections using each of the three following types of ballots in random order: one-mark ballot, approval voting and ranked voting. After each vote, participants were informed of the election results and asked about their level of satisfaction with each voting system. The results show that citizens prefer having the option to rank order the parties rather than using a one-mark ballot or approval voting. Individuals are also more likely to favour voting rules when they are satisfied with the results of the election

    Party Preference Representation

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    Political parties are key actors in electoral democracies: they organize the legislature, form governments, and citizens choose their representatives by voting for them. How citizens evaluate political parties and how well the parties that citizens evaluate positively perform thus provide useful tools to estimate the quality of representation from the individual’s perspective. We propose a measure that can be used to assess party preference representation at both the individual and aggregate levels, both in government and in parliament. We calculate the measure for over 160,000 survey respondents following 111 legislative elections held in 38 countries. We find little evidence that the party preferences of different socio-economic groups are systematically over or underrepresented. However, we show that citizens on the right tend to have higher representation scores than their left-wing counterparts. We also find that whereas proportional systems do not produce higher levels of representation on average, they reduce variance in representation across citizens
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