Alan Renwick

The Politics of Electoral Reform

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Elections lie at the heart of democracy, and this book seeks to understand how electoral systems are chosen.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 477g
• ISBN-13: 9781107403253
• ISBN-10: 1107403251
• Artikelnr.: 33401066

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
Part I. Building Blocks: 2. What motivates actors?
3. From motivations to outcomes: exogenous factors
4. The reform process: endogenous factors
Part II. Elite Majority Imposition: 5. France: the recurrent game of electoral reform
6. Italy: the search for stability
7. Japan: the persistence of SNTV
8. Elite majority imposition: comparative analysis
Part III. Elite-Mass Interaction: 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
Appendix: Glossary of electoral system terminology.