Elections as instruments of democracy : majoritarian and proportional visions /
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last 25 years, it examines the differences between two visions of democracy - the majoritarian vision and the proportional influence vision.
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press
[2000]
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| Series: | Renaissance in Europe Ser. A Cultural Enquiry.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt32bwg8 |
Table of Contents:
- Elections as instruments of democracy
- Constitutional designs as visions of majoritarian or proportional democracy
- Accountability: conditions for citizen control
- Conditions for mandates: identifiability and majority
- A vision of dispersed political power: authorized representation in policy making
- Testing the vision: responsiveness in selecting governments and policymakers
- Citizen preferences and party positions
- The majoritarian policy vision: decisive elections, governments, and the median citizen
- The proportional influence vision: representing the median citizen through a multistage process
- Overview of the elections as instruments of democracy.