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The tests of Chapter 9 have confirmed a cornerstone of the laws on electoral systems (i.e. the threshold’s role), but have also introduced a new explanatory variable (volatility), that brings significant qualifications and adjustments to that role. Such qualifications and adjustments, in turn, are of no small consequence for the laws themselves, for the prospects of political engineering and for the theory and the practice of democratic representation. The following pages will focus on the salient facets of these consequences and the new challenges they pose to the working of electoral rules.
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We emphasize the ‘systemic’ qualification to distinguish accountability as discussed here from the wholly different matter of personal accountability. On the latter, see, inter alia, Gallagher (2005b: 557–62).
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© 2009 Gianfranco Baldini and Adriano Pappalardo
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Baldini, G., Pappalardo, A. (2009). Systemic Consequences, Past and Future. In: Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230584389_10
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