The politics of electoral reform : changing the rules of democracy
"Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how the rules governing those elections are chosen. Drawing on both broad comparisons and detailed case studies, it focuses upon the electoral rules that govern what sorts of preferences voters can express and how votes...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press ,
2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. What motivates actors?
- 3. From motivations to outcome : exogenous factors
- 4. The reform process : endogenous factors
- 5. France : the recurrent game of electoral reform
- 6. Italy : the research for stability
- 7. Japan : the persistence of SNTV
- 8. Elite majority imposition : comparative analysis
- 9. Italy : diluting proportional representation
- 10. Japan : the abandonment of SNTV
- 11. New Zealand : MMP in a Westminster setting
- 12. Elite-mass interaction : comparative analysis
- 13. Conclusions and implications