This article surveys and analyses democratic electoral reform in Europe since 1945 in order
to pursue three issues. First, it seeks understanding of the processes through which electoral …

This article examines three approaches–rational choice, historical-comparative and
institutional–used to study the politics of electoral reform. The first part is dedicated to a …

Electoral reform is largely regarded as an elite-level issue, dominated by partisan interests,
where citizens are usually marginalised and powerless. This perspective may help to …

Las instituciones generan incentivos y condicionan el comportamiento de los actores que
participan en el sistema político. La estabilidad de las reglas que describen el modo en que …

This article advances the study of electoral reform by conceptualising major, minor and
technical reforms. To do so it treats electoral reform as a two-level concept and defines both …

This article delineates the three waves of development in the study of electoral reform: the
systematic description and consequences of electoral systems; the analysis of major reform …

Lack of reform or the slow pace of reform in public management is an issue that plagues
Israel, particularly in local government (Beeri & Razin, 2015; Levi et al., 2020; Razin & …

When, why, and how are democratic institutions reformed? This is the broad question
guiding this research, rooted in a context of crises of representative democracy. Core …

The seminal work of Arend Lijphart, Electoral Systems and Party Systems (1994), limits the
definition of electoral reforms to those affecting electoral formulas, district magnitudes …

Rethinking Democratic Innovation takes a fresh look at diverging visions of improving
democratic governance and asks whether these existing tensions could be made …