Making Electoral Democracy Work is an international collaborative project that brings together an exceptional team of economists, political scientists, and psychologists from Canada, Europe, and the United States to undertake the most ambitious study ever undertaken of the impact of electoral rules on the functioning of democracy. It is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

The study is looking at 26 elections in five countries. It has three inter-related components:

• an analysis of party strategies in each of the 26 elections;
• an internet panel survey of the same voters in all of these elections;
• and a series of innovative experiments designed to complement the analyses of party and voter behaviour