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The importance of electoral systems has long been downgraded. A large majority of scholars have argued i) that they are not an independent variable, and/or ii) that their effects are, at best, uncertain. Both arguments are demonstrably wrong.
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Sartori, G. (1994). The Importance of Electoral Systems. In: Comparative Constitutional Engineering. International Economic Association Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22861-4_3
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