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Author: Matthew S. Shugart Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108417027 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 361
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Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.
Author: Matthew S. Shugart Publisher: 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.
Author: Ron Johnston Publisher: Manchester University Press ISBN: 9780719058523 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 268
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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.
Author: Erik S. Herron Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190258675 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 1017
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No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape the results not only of individual elections but also of many other important political outcomes, including party systems, candidate selection, and policy choices. Electoral systems have been a hot topic in established democracies from the UK and Italy to New Zealand and Japan. Even in the United States, events like the 2016 presidential election and court decisions such as Citizens United have sparked advocates to promote change in the Electoral College, redistricting, and campaign-finance rules. Elections and electoral systems have also intensified as a field of academic study, with groundbreaking work over the past decade sharpening our understanding of how electoral systems fundamentally shape the connections among citizens, government, and policy. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of the origins and effects of electoral systems.
Author: John H Aldrich Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472131028 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 253
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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.
Author: Matthew S. Shugart Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108271197 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 362
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Take the number of seats in a representative assembly and the number of seats in districts through which this assembly is elected. From just these two numbers, the authors of Votes from Seats show that it is possible to deduce the number of parties in the assembly and in the electorate, as well as the size of the largest party. Inside parties, the vote distributions of individual candidates likewise follow predictable patterns. Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using scientific approaches rare in social sciences. Both complex and simple electoral systems are covered, and the book offers a set of 'best practices' for electoral system design. The ability to predict so much from so little, and to apply to countries worldwide, is an advance in the systematic analysis of a core institutional feature found in any democracy, and points the way towards making social sciences more predictive.
Author: Dan S. Felsenthal Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642204414 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 353
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Both theoretical and empirical aspects of single- and multi-winner voting procedures are presented in this collection of papers. Starting from a discussion of the underlying principles of democratic representation, the volume includes a description of a great variety of voting procedures. It lists and illustrates their susceptibility to the main voting paradoxes, assesses (under various models of voters' preferences) the probability of paradoxical outcomes, and discusses the relevance of the theoretical results to the choice of voting system.
Author: Matthew S. Shugart
Author: Matthew S. Shugart
Author: Rein Taagepera
Author: Lawrence LeDuc
Author: Ontario. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Author: Ron Johnston
Author: Erik S. Herron
Author: Abigail M. Thernstrom
Author: John H Aldrich
Author: Matthew S. Shugart
Author: Dan S. Felsenthal