Electoral reform: what is this?

[Die Neue Zeit]

I'm doing some Web browsing right now and I can't find the specific political science term that describes currently-absent electoral systems wherein voters vote strictly for the party (closed-list proportional representation) or for independent mavericks, but wherein party-associated representatives-elect are subject to be yanked out of the legislature at the whim of the party and replaced by another party member.

Is there a specific term for this?

[Demogorgon]

No, such a system does not exist and as far as I know has never been proposed.

De Facto it does exist in some countries that use Closed List proportional representation as parties will sometimes force resignations so that they can replace an MP with whoever is next on the list. But there is no particular name for it.

[Demogorgon]

Oh and while I remember, there is a South American country (either Guyana or Uruguay I think) where voters vote for a party and the seats are assigned as normal and the party chiefs then choose after the election who gets the seats. They just call it closed-list proportional representation though.

[Die Neue Zeit]

No, such a system does not exist and as far as I know has never been proposed.

De Facto it does exist in some countries that use Closed List proportional representation as parties will sometimes force resignations so that they can replace an MP with whoever is next on the list. But there is no particular name for it.

Oh and while I remember, there is a South American country (either Guyana or Uruguay I think) where voters vote for a party and the seats are assigned as normal and the party chiefs then choose after the election who gets the seats. They just call it closed-list proportional representation though.

Thanks for the info (though it's a shame there's no term :( ).

This kind of electoral reform is tied to my historical "study" of the SPD-as-vanguard-model (http://www.revleft.com/vb/sozialdemokratische-partei-deutschlands-t79754/index.html) (in this case, its opportunist parliamentary caucus not towing the party line, unlike the subordination of RSDLP Duma reps to the RSDLP Central Committee). Eventually, the SPD Executive Committee voted for war credits in following the opportunist precedents set out by the parliamentary caucus and by the SPD's trade unions.