LEADER 03630nam 22006975 450 001 9910808492603321 005 20230306052217.0 010 $a1-4426-6274-3 010 $a1-4426-6273-5 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442662735 035 $a(CKB)2550000001197312 035 $a(EBL)3287093 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000951294 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11551684 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000951294 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10884337 035 $a(PQKB)10805440 035 $a(CEL)439859 035 $a(OCoLC)852803487 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00232632 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3287093 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4669227 035 $a(DE-B1597)497125 035 $a(OCoLC)1083624558 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442662735 035 $a(OCoLC)1371400355 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106244 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001197312 100 $a20190123d2019 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWrestling with Democracy $eVoting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West /$fDennis Pilon 210 1$aToronto : $cUniversity of Toronto Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (409 p.) 225 1 $aStudies in comparative political economy and public policy ;$v[39] 311 $a1-4426-4541-5 311 $a1-4426-1350-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and indexes. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Contextualizing Democracy -- Chapter 3: Prologue to the Democratic Era -- Chapter 4: Facing the Democratic Challenge 1900-1918 -- Chapter 5: Struggling with Democracy 1919-39 -- Chapter 6: The Cold War Democratic Compromise 1940-1969 -- Chapter 7: The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment 1970-2000. 330 8 $aIn this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change."--Pub. desc. 330 $a"Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. 410 0$aStudies in comparative political economy and public policy ;$v39. 606 $aDemocracy$zWestern countries$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aVoting$zWestern countries$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical parties$zWestern countries$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aWestern countries$xPolitics and government$y20th century 615 0$aDemocracy$xHistory 615 0$aVoting$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical parties$xHistory 676 $a909 700 $aPilon$b Dennis, $01637686 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808492603321 996 $aWrestling with Democracy$93979657 997 $aUNINA