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UNINA9910779346703321 |
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Autore |
Ahmed Amel |
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Titolo |
Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice : engineering electoral dominance / / Amel Ahmed [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-139-85444-5 |
1-107-23780-7 |
1-139-84619-1 |
1-139-84063-0 |
1-139-84300-1 |
1-139-38213-6 |
1-139-84536-5 |
1-283-74670-0 |
1-139-84182-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Classificazione |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Democratization |
Democracy |
Elections |
Representative government and representation |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contradictions and ambiguities of democratization -- Strategies of containment : the role of repression and accommodation -- Strategies of competition : the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR) -- The United States : pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP -- The United Kingdom : safeguarding the Reform Acts with SMP -- France : the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the Third Republic -- Belgium : minimizing the existential threat with PR -- Rethinking democracy's determinisms -- The existential threat : electoral viability and ideological radicalism. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical |
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