TY  - GEN
T1  - Wrestling with democracy : voting systems as politics in the twentieth-century West
T2  - Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ;
A1  - Pilon, Dennis, 1965-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 2013
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn852803487
AB  - "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.
AB  - 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.
OP  - 392
CN  - JC421 P55 2013eb
SN  - 9781442662735
SN  - 1442662735
SN  - 9781442645417
KW  - Democracy : Western countries : History : 20th century.
KW  - Voting : Western countries : History : 20th century.
KW  - Political parties : Western countries : History : 20th century.
KW  - Western countries : Politics and government : 20th century.
KW  - Démocratie : Occident : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Occident : Politique et gouvernement : 20e siècle.
KW  - Vote : Occident : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - Partis politiques : Occident : Histoire : 20e siècle.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : World : General.
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Voting
KW  - Western countries
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - History
ER  -