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Citizenship and democracy
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ISBN: 1281969591 1554881331 9786611969592 9781554881338 9781459718432 1459718437 1550022806 9781550022803 Year: 1997 Publisher: Toronto Dundurn Press

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Former MLA Nick Loenen examines what proportional representation can do for Canadian politics.


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Predicting party sizes : the logic of simple electoral systems
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ISBN: 1281154555 9786611154554 0191537020 1435622928 Year: 2007 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect? Predicting Party Sizes is the first book to make specific predictions that agree with world averages. The basic factors are the numbers of seats in the assembly and in the average electoral district. While previous models tell us only the direction in which to change the electoral system, the present ones also tell us by how much they must be changed so as to obtainthe desired change in average number of parties and cabinet duration. Hence, combined with known particularities of a coun


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Seats and votes: the effects and determinants of electoral systems
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ISBN: 0300043198 9780300043198 Year: 1989 Publisher: London Yale University Press

Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds
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ISBN: 019925768X 0191600245 9780191600241 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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In the view of many electoral reformers, mixed-member systems offer the best of the traditional British single-seat system and PR systems. This book evaluates why the systems have appealed to many countries, and how well expectations have been met.


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Social justice through inclusion : the consequences of electoral quotas in India
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ISBN: 0190646640 0190646624 0190646632 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York, NY : Oxford University Press,

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What are long-term effects of India's extensive electoral quota systems? This book's insightful discussions, backed by rich empirical data, show how the quotas have shaped incentives for politicians, parties and voters, and indicate the trade-offs inherent in how such policies of group inclusion are designed.


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Electoral systems and political context : how the effects of rules vary across new and established democracies
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ISBN: 9781139178945 9781107025424 9781107607996 9781139569279 1139569279 1139178946 9781139571081 1139571087 9781139572835 1139572830 9781139572835 1107025427 110760799X 1316090051 1139579657 1107254655 1283715562 113957017X Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Electoral Systems and Political Context illustrates how political and social context conditions the effects of electoral rules. The book examines electoral behavior and outcomes in countries that use 'mixed-member' electoral systems - where voters cast one ballot for a party list under proportional representation (PR) and one for a candidate in a single member district (SMD). Based on comparisons of outcomes under the two different rules used in mixed-member systems, the book highlights how electoral systems' effects - especially strategic voting, the number of parties and women's representation - tend to be different in new democracies from what one usually sees in established democracies. Moreover, electoral systems such as SMDs are usually presumed to constrain the number of parties irrespective of the level of social diversity, but this book demonstrates that social diversity frequently shapes party fragmentation even under such restrictive rules.

Elections as instruments of democracy : majoritarian and proportional visions
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ISBN: 0300080158 0300080166 9780300080162 9780300080155 Year: 2000 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.): Yale university


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How democracies vote : a study of electoral systems
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ISBN: 0571048420 Year: 1974 Publisher: London Faber and Faber


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To keep or to change first past the post? : the politics of electoral reform
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ISBN: 1281853240 9786611853242 0191561568 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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First past the post is one of the oldest and simplest electoral systems. The logic is simple: the candidate with the most votes wins. It is the system in place in some of the oldest democracies, most especially the United States and the United Kingdom, as well as the largest democracy, India. This is also a system that is hotly debated, and proposals for reform are often advanced. This book addresses the following questions: What fosters or hinders reform of first past the post? When and why does reform emerge on the political agenda? Who proposes and who opposes reform? When and why do reform

Mixed-member electoral systems : the best of both worlds?
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ISBN: 1281989819 9786611989811 0191528978 9780191528972 9780191600241 0191600245 0199240795 9780199240791 019925768X 9780199257683 Year: 2001 Publisher: Oxford ; New York : ©2001 Oxford University Press,

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