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Autore: | Pilon Dennis |
Titolo: | Wrestling with Democracy : Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West / / Dennis Pilon |
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.: | 9910791217303321 |
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