caa a22 4500 605488843 CHVBK 20210128100457.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10683-014-9408-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10683-014-9408-x Kartal Melis Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090, Vienna, Austria aut Laboratory elections with endogenous turnout: proportional representation versus majoritarian rule [Elektronische Daten] [Melis Kartal] I investigate the impact of proportional representation (PR) and majoritarian rule (MR) on voter turnout and minority representation using theory and experiments. Numerous empirical studies have compared turnout across PR and MR. However, the empirical evidence is mixed. I show theoretically and experimentally that the comparison of turnout across PR and MR depends on the size of the minority but the empirical papers on the topic do not control for it. I also show that, in both theory and data, PR improves minority representation at a minute cost to efficiency if the size of the minority is sufficiently large. However, the representation of a small minority does not show a remarkable improvement under PR, unlike what the theory predicts. I conjecture that, under PR, there is a discouragement effect for the small minority because the PR system that I employ has an election threshold. As a result, the impact of the voting system on representation may be sensitive to both the size of the minority and the degree of proportionality. Economic Science Association, 2014 Majoritarian rule nationallicence Proportional representation nationallicence Voting experiments nationallicence Turnout nationallicence Minority representation nationallicence Experimental Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 18/3(2015-09-01), 366-384 1386-4157 18:3<366 2015 18 10683 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-014-9408-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10683-014-9408-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kartal Melis Department of Economics, University of Vienna, Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090, Vienna, Austria aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Experimental Economics Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 18/3(2015-09-01), 366-384 1386-4157 18:3<366 2015 18 10683