Designed to sit along the 2008 set, Electoral Behaviour, this collection brings together leading electoral systems experts from either side of the Atlantic. The last 25 years have seen this initially underdeveloped discipline in political science grow exponentially in level and range of output.

Examining and mapping these rapid developments this collection covers the following general themes:

- electoral system design and reform

- indices relating to electoral systems, such as proportionality, effective number of parties

- Duverger's Laws

- electoral systems, stability and other consequences

- particular electoral systems.

VOLUME ONE: GENERAL
The Classification of Electoral Systems - André Blais
The Field of Electoral Systems Research - Arend Lijphart
A Critical Survey
How the World Votes - Andrew Reynolds and Marco Steenbergen
The Political Consequences of Ballot Design, Innovation and Manipulation
Electoral Systems - Rein Taagepera
Proportionality, Disproportionality and Electoral Systems - Michael Gallagher
Effective Number of Parties - Markku Laakso and Rein Taagepera
A Measure with Application to West Europe
The Theoretical Limits of Maximum Distortion - John Loosemore and Victor Hanby
Some Analytic Expressions for Electoral Systems
Mapping the Indices of Seat-Votes Disproportionality and Inter-Election Volatility - Rein Taagepera and Bernard Grofman
VOLUME TWO: DUVERGER¿S LAW
The Endogeneity Problem in Electoral Studies - Kenneth Benoit
A Critical Re-Examination of Duverger¿s Mechanical Effect
The Psychological Impact of Electoral Laws - André Blais and R.K. Carty
Measuring Duverger¿s Elusive Factor
It¿s Parties That Choose Electoral Systems (or, Duverger¿s Laws upside down) - Josep Colomer
Electoral Rules and Electoral Co-Ordination - Gary Cox
Duverger¿s Law and the Size of the Indian Party System - Rekha Diwakar
Political Parties - Maurice Duverger
Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State
Duverger¿s Law - Maurice Duverger
Forty Years Later
The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws, 1945-85 - Arend Lijphart
Electoral Institutions, Ethnopolitical Cleavages and Party Systems in Africäs Emerging Party Systems - Shaheen Mozaffar, James Scarritt and Glen Galaich
Ethnic Heterogeneity, District Magnitude and the Number of Parties - Peter Ordeshook and Olga Shvetsova
Structure and Behaviour - Steven Reed
Extending Duverger¿s Law to the Japanese Case
Seat Share Distribution of Parties - Rein Taagepera and Mirjam Allik
Models and Empirical Patterns
Learning to Make Votes Count - Margit Tavits and Taavi Annus
The Role of Democratic Experience
VOLUME THREE: ELECTORAL SYSTEM DESIGN AND REFORM
To Adopt or Not to Adopt Proportional Representation - Andre Blais, Agnieszka Dobrzynska and Indridi Indridason
The Politics of Institutional Choice
Setting the Rules of the Game - Carles Boix
The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies
Expert Opinion on Electoral Systems - Shaun Bowler, David Farrell and Philip Pettitt
So Which Electoral System Is ¿Best¿?
Democratic Electoral Systems around the World, 1946-2000 - Matt Golder
A Guide to the Constitutional Structures and Electoral Systems of East, South and Southeast Asia - Allen Hicken and Yuko Kasuya
The Study of the Politics of Electoral Reform in the 1990s - Gideon Rahat
Theoretical and Methodological Lessons
Evaluating Political Reform in Japan - Steven Reed
A Mid-Term Report
Democratization and Electoral Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region - Ben Reilly
Is There an ¿Asian Model¿ of Democracy?
Electoral ¿Efficiency¿ and the Move to Mixed-Member Systems - Matthew Shugart
Ballot Position Effects - Robert Darcy and Ian McAllister
Preferential Voting and Political Engineering - Ben Reilly
A Comparative Study
Electoral Laws as Political Consequences - Kenneth Benoit
Explaining the Origins and Change of Electoral Institutions
VOLUME FOUR: GEOGRAPHY AND INTRA-PARTY TRENDS
PART ONE: ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND GEOGRAPHY
Electoral Systems and Unimagined Consequences - Burt Monroe and Amanda Rose
Partisan Effects of Districted Proportional Representation
The Value of a Vote - David Samuels and Richard Snyder
Malapportionment in Comparative Perspective
Geographical Representation under Proportional Representation - Michael Latner and Anthony McGann
The Cases of Israel and The Netherlands
The Components of Elections - Scott Morgenstern and Richard Potthoff
District Heterogeneity, District-Time Effects and Volatility
Electoral Institutions, Hometowns and Favored Minorities - Shigeo Hirano
Evidence from Japanese Electoral Reforms
PART TWO: THE INTRA-PARTY DIMENSION
Legislator Shirking and Voter Monitoring - Shaun Bowler and David Farrell
Impacts of European Parliament Electoral Systems upon Legislator-Voter Relationships
Competing Principals, Political Institutions and Party Unity in Legislative Voting - John Carey
Incentives to Cultivate a Personal Vote - John Carey and Matthew Shugart
Comparisons among Electoral Systems - Bernard Grofman
Distinguishing between Localism and Candidate-Centered Politics
Looking for Locals - Matthew Shugart, Melody Valdini and Kati Suominen
Voter Information Demands and Personal Vote-Earning Attributes of Legislators under Proportional Representation
Electoral Systems, Contextual Factors and Women¿s Opportunity for Election in 23 Democracies - Wilma Rule
VOLUME FIVE: ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE
Political Institutions and Satisfaction with Democracy - Christopher Anderson and Christine Guillory
A Cross-National Analysis of Consensus and Majoritarian Systems
A Comparative Theory of Electoral Incentives - Kathlenn Bawn and Michael Thies
Representing the Unorganized under PR, Plurality and Mixed-Member Electoral Systems
Voter Satisfaction and Electoral Systems - David Farrell and Ian McAllister
Does Preferential Voting in Candidate-Centred Systems Make a Difference?
Democracies - Arend Lijphart
Forms, Performance and Constitutional Engineering
Congruence between Citizens and Policy Makers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy - John Huber and G. Bingham Powell Jr.
Ballots not Bullets - Pippa Norris
Testing Consociational Theories of Ethnic Conflict, Electoral Systems and Democratization
Electoral Institutions, Cleavage Structures and the Number of Parties - Octavio Neto and Gary Cox
Does Proportional Representation Foster Voter Turnout - André Blais and R. Kenneth Carty
Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption - Eric Chang and Miriam Golden
Executive Authority, the Personal Vote and Budget Discipline in Latin American and Caribbean Countries - Mark Hallerberg and Patrik Marier
Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption - Jana Kunicová and Susan Rose-Ackerman
Vote-Seeking Incentives and Legislative Representation in Six Presidential Democracies - Brian Crisp et al
VOLUME SIX: PARTICULAR ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
Electoral Strategy under Open-List Proportional Representation - Barry Ames
Making Candidates Count - André Blais and Indridi Indridason
The Logic of Electoral Alliances in Two-Round Legislative Elections
A Quadruple Whammy for First-Past-the-Post - Adrian Blau
Single-Member District Electoral Systems and Democratic Transition - Sarah Birch
Designing Electoral Institutions - David Farrell, Malcolm Mackerras and Ian McAllister
Varieties of STV Systems
Going It Alone? Strategic Entry under Mixed Electoral Rules - Federico Ferrara and Erik Herron
Contamination Effects and the Number of Parties in Mixed-Superposition Electoral Systems - Erik Herron and Misa Nishikawa
Does the Alternative Vote Foster Moderation in Ethnically Divided Societies? The Case of Fiji - Jon Fraenkel and Bernard Grofman
The Importance of Electoral Rules - Ignacio Lago and Ferran Martínez
Comparing the Number of Parties in Spain¿s Lower and Upper Houses
Mixed Electoral Systems and Electoral System Effects - Robert Moser and Ethan Scheiner
Controlled Comparison and Cross-National Analysis
¿Mixed Electoral Rules¿ Impact on Party Systems - Misa Nishikawa and Erik Herron
Electoral Incentives in Mixed-Member Systems - R. Pekkanen, B. Nyblade and E.S. Kraus
Party, Posts and Zombie Politicians in Japan
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems - Matthew Shugart and Martin Wattenberg
The Best of Both Worlds?