Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782510203321
• Autore: Grofman Bernard
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (352 p.)
• Disciplina: 324.6
• Soggetti: Comparative government; Election law; Elections; Voting
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Introduction; Part I. The Effect of Election Type on Political Competition; 1. Duverger's Law Revisited; 2. The Influence of Electoral Systems: Faulty Laws or Faulty Method?; 3. Duverger's Law: Forty Years Later; 4. Intraparty Preference Voting; 5. Thinking about the Length and Renewability of Electoral Terms; Part II. Evaluating the Impact of Electoral Laws: Proportional and Semiproportional Systems Case Studies; 6. Proportionality by Non-PR Methods: Ethnic Representation in Belgium, Cyprus, Lebanon, New West Germany and Zimbabwe 7. Australian Experience with Majority-Preferential and Quota-Preferential Systems; 8. The Rise, Decline and Resurrection of Proportional Representation in Local Governments in the United States; 9. The Limited Vote and the Single Nontransferable Vote: Lessons from the Japanese and Spanish Examples; 10. Degrees of Proportionality of Proportional Representation Formulas; Part III. Evaluating the Impact of Electoral Laws: Plurality Systems; 11. The Geography of Representation: A Review of Recent Findings 12. Social Choice and Plurality like Electoral Systems; 13. The Effect of At-Large Versus District Elections on Racial Representation in U.S. Municipalities; 14. The Nonpartisan Ballot in the United States; 15. ; Ballot Format in Plurality Partisan Elections; 16. Cross-Endorsement and Cross-Filling in Plurality Partisan Elections; Part IV. Redistricting; 17. Whatever Happened to the Reapportionment Revolution in the United States?; 18. Constituency Redistribution in Britain: Recent Issues; 19. Districting Choices under the Single-Transferable Vote References; List of Court Cases; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: The aim of this book is to provide an overview of recent research on electoral laws and their political consequences by scholars who have helped shape the field.