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Electoral Bonus as an Electoral Engineering Tool

Summary/Abstract: Electoral bonus is one of the elements of the electoral system with important but little-known politicalimplications. The purpose of the articles is to review the electoral systems that use the mechanismfor granting additional seats, and to identify their political implications. It provides an analysis ofsolutions used in multiple-tier electoral systems and party list-linking mechanisms. The electoralpractice shows that electoral bonuses can be used both to offset the disproportionate results of theelection and to reinforce large parties. This mainly applies to election winners who, due to bonusseats, can receive an absolute majority of seats in parliament without gaining an absolute majorityof votes. It is, therefore, a powerful electoral engineering tool that can signifi cantly correct the effectsof any election formula, for example, from a proportional to a majority one or vice versa.

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