Floor Crossing and Nascent Democracies – a
Neglected Aspect of Electoral Systems? The
Current South African Debate in the Light of the
Indian Experience
by
Clemens Spieß
Lecturer
South Asia Institute
Department of Political Science
University of Heidelberg
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and
Malte Pehl
Research Assistant
South Asia Institute
Department of Political Science
University of Heidelberg
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Prepared for delivery at the 2003 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science
Association, August 27 - August 31, 2003. Copyright by the American Political Science
Association.
Panel #1, ‘Majority, Proportionality and the Rational Voter: Electoral Systems in
Comparative Perspective’
Research Committee on Political Sociology (Related Group)
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