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How electoral rules and political institutions shape who governs and how power works across countries.
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From Comparative Politics: How Voting Rules Decide Who Governs
"Galton's problem" warns that countries in a comparison may not be independent cases. Why not?
- Countries often rely on the same researchers
- Some countries refuse to publish any data
- Countries copy ideas and policies from each other
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Answer: Countries copy ideas and policies from each other
If a reform spreads by imitation, finding it in many countries does not show that local conditions caused it each time.
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