Electoral Systems (Persson And Tabellini)

Electoral systems and economic policy by Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini. “This chapter discusses recent theoretical and empirical research on one feature of mordem democracies: the electoral rule. Our central conclusion is that electoral rule systematically shapes economic policy. We show that to understand the extent of political corruption, the devil is in the details of electoral systems, such as the ballot structure of district magnitude.”