Università Roma Tre

By the end of the course, students should be able to: know and understand the basic mechanical differences between electoral systems; use electoral results to obtain key measures of analysis, such as the effective number of parties and level of (dis)proportionality; compare and contrast the electoral systems used by different countries, and evaluate how observed differences in the politics of those countries may be related to the electoral systems; recognize the possibilities and limitations of electoral system design and reform.