Papers by Ferran Martinez Coma
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Apr 1, 2009
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América Latina Hoy, 2015
La región lleva celebrando elecciones competitivas en los últimos años. Pero, ¿se han celebrado t... more La región lleva celebrando elecciones competitivas en los últimos años. Pero, ¿se han celebrado todas las contiendas con la misma integridad electoral? Si ha habido problemas, ¿cuáles son? ¿Hay problemas comunes a la región o son parecidos a los del resto del mundo? ¿Se observa algún patrón en las elecciones? ¿Cómo lo sabemos? ¿Bajo qué enfoque metodológico podemos responder estas preguntas? En este artículo, presentamos los resultados de la primera encuesta de expertos sobre percepciones de integridad electoral a escala global, pero con atención especial a América.
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Democratization, 2018
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Este libro no trata (solo) de Aragon. Su titulo alude a la fascinante idiosincrasia de Aragon en ... more Este libro no trata (solo) de Aragon. Su titulo alude a la fascinante idiosincrasia de Aragon en el panorama nacional: en todas las elecciones hasta la fecha, quien gana Aragon, gana Espana (igual que ocurre en los Estados Unidos con Ohio). Estamos en un momento politico apasionante, en mitad de un cataclismo electoral que esta poniendo patas arriba el sistema de partidos que se consolido durante la Transicion; pero para valorar este cambio resulta imprescindible contar con un buen analisis de las caracteristicas de los votantes de nuestro pais. Sin embargo, la mayor parte de la informacion que recibimos con respecto a esta cuestion llega cargada de mitos, sesgada o demasiado orientada a polemizar con respecto a la actual ley electoral.
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The maintenance of democracy requires the balancing of various demands, among them economic liber... more The maintenance of democracy requires the balancing of various demands, among them economic liberty and democracy. Here, Ferran Martinez i Coma shares research which looks at the way these two demands interplay in campaign finance, with the Electoral Integrity Project producing research which shows the extent to which this and related issues affect citizen confidence in democratic systems worldwide.
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Government and Opposition, 2016
The conditions under which losers are willing to challenge the results of elections remain an ope... more The conditions under which losers are willing to challenge the results of elections remain an open question. Using data from the Electoral Integrity Project for 66 democratic and non-democratic countries in 2012 and 2013, we measure how parties or candidates react once votes have been cast and one of them is declared the winner. Do they accept or challenge the results? This measure allows us to examine the causal mechanisms that account for the self-enforcing nature of democracies. Our findings show that losers’ consent increases with free and fair elections and in more economically developed countries, while income inequality is not relevant. Additionally, the impact of free and fair elections is particularly important in more economically developed countries.
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Gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing electoral boundaries in order to benefit one or more el... more Gerrymandering, the practice of redrawing electoral boundaries in order to benefit one or more electoral actor, has a long and infamous history. Here, Ferran Martinez i Coma and Ignacio Lago look at the under-explored area of gerrymandering in a comparative perspective and what link there is between its prevelence and the electoral system in use, finding it more likely to take place in majoritarian systems such as First Past the Post – the system used in UK General Elections.
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Electoral Integrity Project / Hanns Seidel Foundation, 2015
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Electoral Studies, 2022
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Parliamentary Affairs, 2021
The Australian House of Representatives contains far fewer women than men. But is this because pa... more The Australian House of Representatives contains far fewer women than men. But is this because parties of left and right discriminate against women or because voters do? Using a new dataset comprising 7271 House candidates from 2001 to 2019, firstly, we find that the percentage of women candidates is increasing, but is consistently higher for parties of the left than the right. Secondly, women tend to be selected more by parties of both left and right in unsafe seats. Thirdly, all else being equal, voters reward women running for Labor with over 1400 votes more, are neutral towards those of the Liberals and Greens, but tend to penalise women standing for the Nationals. We conclude that, overall, it is parties, not voters, driving under-representation of women in Australia’s lower house.
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Which countries hold the fairest elections? The Perceptions of Electoral Integrity dataset analys... more Which countries hold the fairest elections? The Perceptions of Electoral Integrity dataset analysed every election held so far in 2016 and ranked countries in order of electoral integrity. Ferran Martinez i Coma introduces the findings and identifies some important trends – notably a move away from ballot-stuffing and towards abuses of campaign finance and media manipulation. For the first time, the questionnaire introduced questions about bribery, patronage and the fear of political violence.
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Politics and Governance, 2019
Why do parties and candidates decide to go negative? Research usually starts from the assumption ... more Why do parties and candidates decide to go negative? Research usually starts from the assumption that this decision is strategic, and within this framework two elements stand out: the prospect of electoral failure increases the use of negative campaigning, and so does time pressure (little reaming time to convince voters before election day). In this article, we contribute to this framework by testing two new expectations: (i) political actors are more likely to go negative when they face unfavourable competitive standings and voting day is near; and (ii) they are less likely to go negative when they faced a substantive degradation in their competitive standing over the course of the campaign. We test these expectations on a rich database of newspaper ads about national referenda in Switzerland and provide preliminary empirical evidence consistent with those expectations. The results have important implications for existing research on the strategic underpinnings of campaigning and ...
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Party Politics, 2016
Using data from the Electoral Integrity Project, we measure the level of gerrymandering according... more Using data from the Electoral Integrity Project, we measure the level of gerrymandering according to country expert surveys in Lower House elections in 54 democracies from the second half of 2012 until the first half of 2015. We show that majoritarian systems are more prone to gerrymandering than mixed-member and above all in Proportional Representation (PR) systems. When majoritarian systems are employed in large countries, gerrymandering is exacerbated. Per capita GDP and the age of electoral systems do not significantly affect gerrymandering.
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SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Does electoral integrity affect turnout? And if so, how? We look at some election dynamics that a... more Does electoral integrity affect turnout? And if so, how? We look at some election dynamics that are closely related to electoral integrity – the actions of the government, the opposition and the context in which the election is held – and found significant impact of these dynamics on turnout. We tested our claims using data for 910 elections covering 91 democracies for the 1961-2008 period. Our results reveal that both boycott and election-related violence decrease turnout, the effect of the former being substantially higher. We also find that, contrary to what could be initially expected, governments’ harassing of the opposition actually increases turnout.
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