1. The Economic Policy Consequences of Electoral Systems: Can Proportional Representation Survive Globalization?

2. Eckstein and Electoral Systems

3. Three major questions about electoral systems (with tentative answers):

4. Brief Review of Electoral Systems

5. Two-Party Seat-Vote Functions

6. Policy Effects of Electoral Systems: Major Findings, 1980-present

8. Strong link to Hall, Soskice, et al., Varieties of Capitalism

11. Trade, Size, and PR

12. Imports as a percent of GDP, 1999

13. Natural log of population, 2000

15. Imports as a percent of GDP, 1999

16. Natural log of population, 2000

17. Quick, incomplete, summary of state of evidence

18. Real Prices and PR: More Recent Work

21. Five-Year Moving Average of Real Prices, All Democratic Countries and Years

22. How does this happen?

23. Why, if at all, does this matter? Does it make countries less competitive?

24. Goods Trade as Percentage of GDP

28. Upshot: “new” globalization forces economies, developed and less developed, to

29. Conclusion: Globalization probably threatens PR in at least two ways:

30. Some crucial tests of this argument for the future:

32. Imports, as a percent of GDP, 1999

35. Population, natural log, 2000

38. Government Spending as % of GDP, 1999

41. Worldwide : Three-year moving average

42. Worldwide : Five-year moving average

43. OECD : Three-year moving average:

44. OECD : Five-year moving average:

45. NON-OECD : Three-year moving average

46. NON-OECD : Five-year moving average

47. Dependent variable is imports/GDP, OECD only

48. Emerging Giant