LEADER 03886nam 22007092 450 001 9910452975103321 005 20151005020622.0 010 $a1-139-85444-5 010 $a1-107-23780-7 010 $a1-139-84619-1 010 $a1-139-84063-0 010 $a1-139-84300-1 010 $a1-139-38213-6 010 $a1-139-84536-5 010 $a1-283-74670-0 010 $a1-139-84182-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000000708520 035 $a(EBL)1057555 035 $a(OCoLC)817224547 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000755452 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11433064 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000755452 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10748597 035 $a(PQKB)10684128 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139382137 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1057555 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1057555 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10621702 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL405920 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000708520 100 $a20120404d2013|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDemocracy and the politics of electoral system choice $eengineering electoral dominance /$fAmel Ahmed$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (xii, 228 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a1-107-48413-8 311 $a1-107-03161-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aContradictions 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. 330 $aAmel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies today were initially devised as exclusionary safeguards to protect pre-democratic elites from the impact of democratization and, particularly, the existential threat posed by working-class mobilization. The ubiquitous use and enduring nature of these safeguards calls into question the familiar picture of democracy moving along a path of increasing inclusiveness. Instead, what emerges is a picture that is riddled with ambiguity, where inclusionary democratic reforms combine with exclusionary electoral safeguards to form a permanent part of the new democratic order. This book has important implications for our understanding of the dynamics of democratic development both in early democracies and in emerging democracies today. 517 3 $aDemocracy & the Politics of Electoral System Choice 606 $aDemocratization 606 $aDemocracy 606 $aElections 606 $aRepresentative government and representation 615 0$aDemocratization. 615 0$aDemocracy. 615 0$aElections. 615 0$aRepresentative government and representation. 676 $a320.6 700 $aAhmed$b Amel$01047686 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452975103321 996 $aDemocracy and the politics of electoral system choice$92475426 997 $aUNINA