Seems like it’s under-studied (due to anglophone bias in the English language political science world probably) - but comparative political science is a discipline, and this paper suggests it’s a matter of single-member districts rather than the nature of the constitutional arrangement:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0010414090022004004(I would just emphasize, before anyone complains, that the Federal Republic of Germany is very much a federal republic.)