Variable: Dominant or Populous Tier

QoG Code: (jw_domr)


Dataset: Electoral Systems and the Personal Vote

Description:

This variable ranks countries in increasing order of incentives to cultivate a personal vote according to their most dominant or populous tier (or tier with the greater number of legislators). The variable varies from 1 to 13, corresponding to the thirteen positions in Carey \& Shugart's (1995) ranking. For example, a country with a ranking of 1 would have a tier with the lowest possible rank of personal vote incentives, and that tier would account for the majority of the members in the assembly.

Type of variable: Categorical

Downloaded by QoG on: 2022-12-07
Last updated by source: 2012-03-24


Categories:

Political Parties and Elections


Find this variable in:

OECD Time-series - 2024 Standard Time-series - 2024 Original Dataset

Details of this variable in our compilations datasets
Dataset No. Countries
Standard time-series: 126
OECD time-series: 37


This variable has information for these countries:

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This variable has information from the year 1978 to the year 2005