03384nam 22005653u 450 991081702090332120230721004030.0(CKB)1000000000688688(EBL)318674(OCoLC)476114034(SSID)ssj0000359247(PQKBManifestationID)12102595(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000359247(PQKBWorkID)10381305(PQKB)11230971(MiAaPQ)EBC318674(EXLCZ)99100000000068868820130418d2007|||| u|| |engtxtccrElectoral Laws & Their Political Consequences[electronic resource]New York Algora Publishing20071 online resource (352 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-87586-074-5 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 Studies6. 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 Systems11. 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 Issues19. Districting Choices under the Single-Transferable Vote References; List of Court Cases; IndexThe 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.Comparative governmentElection lawElectionsVotingComparative government.Election law.Elections.Voting.324.6Grofman Bernard145487Lijphart ArendAU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910817020903321Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences4054137UNINA