The short-term effects of electoral reforms

While electoral reforms clearly affect how seats are (re)distributed among parties immediately after their adoption, they do not significantly change the (re)distribution of votes parties. As political knowledge is positively related to turnout, we argue that effect majoritarian on number contingent upon turnout in last election prior reform. Specifically, lower level previous election, more effective reform will be. However, psychological proportional relies interplay between elites and voters highly uncertain. The argument tested using aggregated data from 43 major worldwide 1945 2020 individual first held New Zealand 1993