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This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules.
Author : Robert G. Moser
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,23 MB
Release : 2012-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107025427
This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules.
Author : Nathan F. Batto
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 18,79 MB
Release : 2016-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472119737
An examination of the ways in which the introduction of mixed-member electoral systems affects the configuration of political parties
Author : Erik S. Herron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190258675
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 : Hans-Dieter Klingemann
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2009-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191567329
Citizens living in presidential or parliamentary systems face different political choices as do voters casting votes in elections governed by rules of proportional representation or plurality. Political commentators seem to know how such rules influence political behaviour. They firmly believe, for example, that candidates running in plurality systems are better known and held more accountable to their constituencies than candidates competing in elections governed by proportional representation. However, such assertions rest on shaky ground simply because solid empirical knowledge to evaluate the impact of political institutions on individual political behaviour is still lacking. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems has collected data on political institutions and on individual political behaviour and scrutinized it carefully. In line with common wisdom results of most analyses presented in this volume confirm that political institutions matter for individual political behaviour but, contrary to what is widely believed, they do not matter much.
Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 33,61 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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Author : Matthew S. Shugart
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1108417027
Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.
Author : Paul Kleppner
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 35,71 MB
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 146963953X
This analysis of the contours and social bases of mass voting behavior in the United States over the course of the third electoral era, from 1853 to 1892, provides a deep and rich understanding of the ways in which ethnoreligious values shaped party combat in the late nineteenth century. It was this uniquely American mode of "political confessionals" that underlay the distinctive characteristics of the era's electoral universe. In its exploration of the the political roles of native and immigrant ethnic and religious groups, this study bridges the gap between political and social history. The detailed analysis of ethnoreligious experiences, values, and beliefs is integrated into an explanation of the relationship between group political subcultures and partisan preferences which wil be of interest to political sociologists, political scientists, and also political and social historians. Unlike other works of this genre, this book is not confined to a single description of the voting patterns of a single state, or of a series of states in one geographic region, but cuts across states and regions, while remaining sensitive to the enormously significant ways in which political and historical context conditioned mass political behavior. The author accomplishes this remarkable fusion by weaving the small patterns evident in detailed case studies into a larger overview of the electoral system. The result is a unified conceptual framework that can be used to understand both American political behavior duing an important era and the general preconditions of social-group political consciousness. Challenging in major ways the liberal-rational assumptions that have dominated political history, the book provides the foundation for a synthesis of party tactics, organizational practices, public rhetoric, and elite and mass behaviors.
Author : Lawrence LeDuc
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 23,43 MB
Release : 1996-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
11. Leaders - Ian McAllister
Author : Lawrence LeDuc
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,69 MB
Release : 2014-04-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1473905087
This book provides you with a theoretical and comparative understanding of the major topics related to elections and voting behaviour. It explores important work taking place on new areas, whilst at the same time covering the key themes that you’ll encounter throughout your studies. Edited by three leading figures in the field, the new edition brings together an impressive range of contributors and draws on a range of cases and examples from across the world. It now includes: New chapters on authoritarian elections and regime change, and electoral integrity A chapter dedicated to voting behaviour Increased emphasis on issues relating to the economy. Comparing Democracies, Fourth Edition will remain a must-read for students and lecturers of elections and voting behaviour, comparative politics, parties, and democracy.
Author : Gary W. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1997-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521585279
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.