The evolution of electoral systems in America: 1900-2004

Authors

  • Laura Wills Otero University of Pittsburgh
  • Aníbal Pérez-Liñán University of Pittsburgh

Keywords:

Political Science, Comparative politics, Electoral systems, America, Electoral processes

Abstract

This article presents the preliminary results of a project which search the historical evolution of the electoral systems of 21 American countries. The first section checks the literature on this issue and summarizes the project objectives. In the second section the authors describe the adopted perspective and the collected information. The third part offers a classification of the American electoral systems for the 1900-2004 period. In the fourth section the authors describe the historical evolution of the electoral systems, and conclude with a hypothesis which suggests the affinity between the authoritarian presidentialism and non proportional mechanisms. On the appendix the authors offers a summary of the information recollected by the project.

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Author Biographies

Laura Wills Otero, University of Pittsburgh

Estudiante del programa de doctorado de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. M.A. Universidad de Pittsburgh (2005). Politóloga de la Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá-Colombia (1998).

Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, University of Pittsburgh

PhD, University of Notre Dame, 2001 (Government and International Studies) y actualmente profesor en el Departamento de Ciencia Política de la Universidad de Pittsburgh. Experto en Política Latinoamericana, Instituciones Políticas y procesos de Democratización.

Published

2017-11-23

How to Cite

Wills Otero, L., & Pérez-Liñán, A. (2017). The evolution of electoral systems in America: 1900-2004. Colección, (16), 47–82. Retrieved from https://erevistas.uca.edu.ar/index.php/COLEC/article/view/760

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Research Articles