Electoral Rules and Clientelistic Parties: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

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dc.creatorPellicer, Miquel
dc.creatorWegner, Eva
dc.date2013-02-28T13:39:53Z
dc.date2013-02-28T13:39:53Z
dc.date2012
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T10:05:11Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T10:05:11Z
dc.date.issued2015-05-28
dc.descriptionThis paper studies the causal effect of electoral systems on the performance of clientelistic vs. programmatic parties. We argue that, contrary to majoritarian systems, proportional systems disfavor clientelistic parties as voters can hardly be pivotal for electing their local patron. We test this insight using data from local elections in Morocco from 2003 and 2009. We use a regression discontinuity approach exploiting the fact that the law stipulates a population threshold below which the system is majoritarian and above which it is proportional. Results show a differential causal effect of proportional systems on programmatic and clientelisticparties: Clientelistic parties halve their seats and the programmatic party doubles them when crossing the threshold of proportionality. An important caveat is that the sample size around the threshold being relatively small, some coefficients are estimated relatively imprecisely. Fixed effects estimates exploiting a change in threshold from 2003 to 2009 yield qualitatively similar results. Length: 52 pages
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/169
dc.identifier.ris TY - Report DA - 2015-05-28 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Regression discontinuity KW - Electoral system KW - Proportional system KW - Politics LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2015 T1 - Electoral Rules and Clientelistic Parties: A Regression Discontinuity Approach TI - Electoral Rules and Clientelistic Parties: A Regression Discontinuity Approach UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11090/169 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11090/169
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSouthern Africa Labour and Development Research Unit
dc.publisher.departmentSALDRUen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Commerceen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectRegression discontinuity
dc.subjectElectoral system
dc.subjectProportional system
dc.subjectPolitics
dc.titleElectoral Rules and Clientelistic Parties: A Regression Discontinuity Approach
dc.typeReport
uct.type.publicationResearchen_ZA
uct.type.resourceSALDRU Reporten_ZA
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