• DOI:10.22459/pppi.04.2008.03
Corpus ID: 152351287

Political consequences of Pacific island electoral laws

@inproceedings{Fraenkel2005PoliticalCO,
  title={Political consequences of Pacific island electoral laws},
  author={Jonathan Fraenkel},
  year={2005}
}

Jonathan Fraenkel

Published 2005

Political Science

JON FRAENKEL At first sight, the Pacific Islands seem like a graveyard for institutional determinist theories regarding the impact of electoral systems on party polarisation. Maurice Duverger’s well-known ‘sociological law’ was that first-past-the-post electoral rules tend to deliver two-party systems. Proportional representation (PR) systems were more loosely associated with multi-party settings.2 Yet in the Pacific, first-past-the-post using countries, such as the Solomon Islands and Papua… CONTINUE READING

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