Matthew S. Shugart and Rein Taagepera: Votes from seats: logical models of electoral systems (original) (raw)

Votes from Seats assesses the impact of electoral institutions on party systems, pioneering a logical approach to rethink the causal relationship between electoral rules and political parties. Central to the work is the Seat Product Model (SPM), which establishes a distinctive relationship between assembly size and district magnitude in predicting the effective number of parties. While the book successfully critiques traditional notions of electoral dynamics and encourages a reconsideration of established theories, it notably overlooks discussions on electoral pathologies and alternative explanations rooted in political culture.