Table 1
Political and economic outcomes
in alternative electoral systems
|
Majoritarian |
Mixed |
Proportional | |
|
party fragmentation |
0.54 (0.17) |
0.54 (0.12) |
0.70 (0.09) |
|
coalition governments |
0.24 (0.41) |
0.33 (0.47) |
0.55 (0.47) |
|
single-party governments |
0.63 (0.47) |
0.40 (0.50) |
0.17 (0.37) |
|
government spending |
25.94 |
33.45 (11.3) |
35.12 (9.30) |
|
N. obs. |
138 |
7 |
187 |
Simple averages; standard deviations in parenthesis.
Observations pooled across countries and legislatures.