Electoral Systems Used around the World
This is an incremental review paper summarizing existing knowledge on electoral systems for researchers or practitioners in political science.
The paper provides an overview of diverse electoral systems used globally, discussing methods for selecting winners and analyzing their strengths and weaknesses from theoretical and practical perspectives, without presenting new results or data.
We give an overview of the diverse electoral systems used in local, national, or super-national elections around the world. We discuss existing methods for selecting single and multiple winners and give real-world examples for some more elaborate systems. Eventually, we elaborate on some of the better known strengths and weaknesses of various methods from both the theoretical and practical points of view.