The Social Basis of Proportional Representation
Author : Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Proportional representation
ISBN :
Author : Jeremiah Whipple Jenks
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 36,45 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Proportional representation
ISBN :
Author : T. R. Ashworth
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 46,16 MB
Release : 2019-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In Australia, the topic of electoral reform has become a hotly debated issue due to a clause in the Commonwealth Bill that mandates the direct election of six senators from each state. Advocates of the Block Vote argue that the party in the majority should be able to elect all six senators, while a small group of reformers are pushing for the adoption of the Hare system, which would give each section of the population equal representation. In this book, the author proposes a new electoral reform that combines the advantages of both methods while avoiding their disadvantages. This reform would ensure that each electorate is contested by the two main parties, provide fair representation to all sections of the population, and discourage the formation of minor groups that often skew election results. If you're interested in the topic of electoral reform and want to learn more about a potential solution, this book is a must-read.
Author : Gregory Conti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1108428738
The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?
Author : Charles Rollin Buckalew
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 1872
Category : History
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Publisher :
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 27,75 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Proportional representation
ISBN :
Author : Robert Richie
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 10,11 MB
Release : 1999-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780807044216
A lively dialogue on the power of electoral reform to strengthen our democratic institutions Scholars, critics, reformers, politicians, and activists have for years asked why Americans are so uninvolved in the political process. Minority underrepresentation, the marginalization of progressive voices, the exclusion of the poor-these and other serious problems appear everywhere, from the pages of national newspapers to MTV. Robert Richie and Steven Hill offer a powerful solution, one currently in practice in many parts of the world, including places in the U.S.: proportional representation. They demonstrate that unlike the winner-takes-all system, which always leaves the losers completely unrepresented, proportional representation gives all points of view a political voice; it works by giving citizens multiple votes or the right to vote for more than one candidate, or by giving political parties power according to percentages of votes received. Esteemed thinkers-Cynthia McKinney, John Ferejohn, E. Joshua Rosenkrantz, Gary W. Cox, Daniel Cantor, Ross Mirkarimi, Anthony Thig penn, and Pamela S. Karlan-respond in essays discussing the forms proportional representation could take to operate best in the U.S. Their contributions underscore the concept at the heart of this book: the more people invested in the political process, the more democratic-and reflective of all of us-our system becomes. NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM: A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues-both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.
Author : Proportional Representation Society
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Single transferable voting
ISBN :
Author : George Hervey Hallett
Publisher :
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 23,1 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Elections
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 4 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Proportional representation
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Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 28,40 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
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