Author: Rein TaageperaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300043198
Category : Proportional representation.
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Seats and Votes
Author: Rein TaageperaPublisher:
ISBN: 9780300043198
Category : Proportional representation.
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Votes from Seats
Author: Matthew S. ShugartPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417027
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.
From Votes To Seats
Author: Ron JohnstonPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719058523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
From Votes to Seats is a study of the 14 general elections held between 1950 and 1997 in Britain. Arguing that the British electoral system treats political parties disproportionately, the authors show that the amount of bias in those elections results substantially increased over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. With the use of imaginative diagrams, this book examines the electoral process in detail, illustrating how it operates, while stressing the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.
Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
Author: Alexander KeyssarPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 067497414X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
The Many Faces of Strategic Voting
Author: John H AldrichPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472131028
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.
Elbridge Gerry's Salamander
Author: Gary W. CoxPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
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Comparing Democracies
Author: Lawrence LeDucPublisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
11. Leaders - Ian McAllister
Whose Votes Count?
Author: Abigail M. ThernstromPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674951952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302.
Statehouse Democracy
Author: Robert S. EriksonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521424059
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies from the 1930s to the present.
Party Ballots, Reform, and the Transformation of America's Electoral System
Author: Erik J. EngstromPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107050391
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
This book demonstrates that nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product of institutions that prescribed how votes were cast and were converted into political offices.