Wrestling with Democracy : Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West / / Dennis Pilon

• Autore: Pilon Dennis
• Pubblicazione: Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (409 p.)
• Disciplina: 909
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - Western countries - History - 20th century; Voting - Western countries - History - 20th century; Political parties - Western countries - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Western countries Politics and government 20th century
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-372) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Chapter 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 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.; "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Wrestling with Democracy
• ISBN: 1-4426-6274-3; 1-4426-6273-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808492603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; ; 39.