Electoral rules and democracy in Latin America /
"During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to new parties, and assuring the public that the president will never have anything less than...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Research design and quantitative analysis
- Why was runoff superior? Theory and cross-national evidence
- Plurality : problems in Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, and Venezuela (and the Panama exception)
- Runoff : success in Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, and Uruguay
- Runoff amid a plethora of political parties : Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, and Peru
- Runoff : is a reduced threshold better? Argentina and Costa Rica
- Conclusion and the future of presidential-election rules.