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Autore: | Grofman Bernard |
Titolo: | Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Algora Publishing, 2007 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
Disciplina: | 324.6 |
Soggetto topico: | Comparative government |
Election law | |
Elections | |
Voting | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Persona (resp. second.): | LijphartArend |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910453962003321 |
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