Wrestling with democracy : voting systems as politics in the twentieth-century West /
"Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-Americ...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press
©2013.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ;
39. |
| Online-Zugang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctt5hjwkt |
| Zusammenfassung: | "Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change."--Pub. desc. |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781442662735 1442662735 9781442645417 |