Electoral Engineering

This page collects work by Mark Wilson and collaborators aimed at evaluating the quality of election methods for representative democracy. This research strand is currently supported by a grant (with Arkadii Slinko and Geoffrey Pritchard) from the Marsden Fund. This grant supports the PhD work of Faezeh Frouzesh.

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Publications

• Simulating the 2011 referendum in New Zealand
  (with Geoffrey Pritchard), Parliamentary Affairs 67, 969-980, 2014.
• Submission to the Electoral Commission of New Zealand Review of MMP
  (with Michael Fowlie), reprinted in the EC's final report.

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Slides for talks

• Where are the best parliamentary election methods?
  CSD Lunchtime Seminar, UC Irvine, 2015-02-23.
• Electoral engineering via simulation
  UC Davis Political Science Department seminar, 2013-05-22; UC Irvine IMBS Seminar, 2013-04-26.
• 2011 referendum options simulator
  CMSS Seminar 2011-08-23.

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Software

• My C++ code for electoral system computations (under continuous update)
• The 2011 referendum options simulator

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Data sources

Electoral laws and results

• IFES Election Guide
• Constituency-Level Elections Archive at U.Michigan
• PARLINE from Inter-Parliamentary Union
• ACE Electoral Knowledge Project

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Studies

• Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
• American National Election Study
• NZ Election study
• British election study
• Canada election study

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General

• Fruits and Votes (Matthew Shugart)

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Last updated: 2015-11-30