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• Title:
  The relationship between position on an electoral list and chances of winning a seat in a representative body; experiences from the 2015 Sejm election in Poland
• Creator:
  Rachwał, Marcin
• Description:
  This paper examines the relationship between the candidate’s position on an electoral list and the feasibility of winning a seat in the Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish parliament). This research hypothesizes that winning a seat strongly depends on the candidate having a top position on the electoral list. This hypothesis is verified vis-à-vis the results of the 2015 election to the Sejm. The study confirmed the initial assumption, since it was found that nearly 82% of the seats were taken by the candidates from the so-called “seat-winning places,” namely the top places on the lists of candidates (the number of these places equals the number of seats taken by a given party in a given constituency).
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Przegląd Politologiczny
• Date:
  2018.10.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł naukowy;
  Artykuły naukowe
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  Przegląd Politologiczny; No. 3 (2018); 135-144;
  Przegląd Politologiczny; Nr 3 (2018); 135-144;
  2956-5081;
  1426-8876
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pp/article/view/15001/14741
• Subject:
  Elections;
  electoral system;
  electoral formula;
  Polish Parliament;
  “seat-winning places”
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pp/article/view/15001
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other