Electoral Engineering

Electoral Engineering
Author: Pippa Norris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2004-02-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521536714

From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.

The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries

The Evolution of Electoral and Party Systems in the Nordic Countries
Author: Arend Lijphart
Publisher: Algora Publishing
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2007
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0875861687

"This is a book that all scholars of electoral systems or electoral history will need to read, and most will want to own. Much of the historical material reported is not available anywhere else in English, and much of it appears to be first-time reports of primary materials. Quite readable and very well-organized." -Cambridge Univ. Press referee

Radical Right

Radical Right
Author: Pippa Norris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-08-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521849142

This book, first published in 2005, explains why radical right parties have advanced in a diverse array of democracies.

Comparative Democratic Politics

Comparative Democratic Politics
Author: Hans Keman
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2002-05-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780761954774

This essential new book brings together world class scholars to provide a completely new comparative politics text. It offers a comprehensive reivew of the complete democratic process and provides a framework for measuring and evaluating contemporary democracy and democratic performance around the world.

Before Norms

Before Norms
Author: Robert W. Jackman
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 263
Release: 2009-12-21
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 047202406X

The potato famines of the nineteenth century were long attributed to Irish indolence. The Stalinist system was blamed on a Russian proclivity for autocracy. Muslim men have been accused of an inclination to terrorism. Is political behavior really the result of cultural upbringing, or does the vast range of human political action stem more from institutional and structural constraints? This important new book carefully examines the role of institutions and civic culture in the establishment of political norms. Jackman and Miller methodically refute the Weberian cultural theory of politics and build in its place a persuasive case for the ways in which institutions shape the political behavior of ordinary citizens. Their rigorous examination of grassroots electoral participation reveals no evidence for even a residual effect of cultural values on political behavior, but instead provides consistent support for the institutional view. Before Norms speaks to urgent debates among political scientists and sociologists over the origins of individual political behavior. Robert W. Jackman is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. Ross A. Miller is Associate Professor of Political Science at Santa Clara University.

Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook

Elections in Asia and the Pacific : A Data Handbook
Author: Dieter Nohlen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 876
Release: 2001-11-15
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191530425

This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the present. Following the overall structure of the series, an initial comparative introduction on elections and electoral systems is followed by chapters on each state of the region. Written by knowledgeable and renowned scholars, the contributions examine the evolution of institutional and electoral arrangements, and provide systematic surveys of the up-to-date electoral provisions and their historical development. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendums are given in each chapter. Together with the other books of this series, Elections in Asia and the Pacific is a highly reliable resource for historical and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral systems world-wide. The second volume of Elections in Asia and the Pacific covers the Asia-Pacific area, i.e. the 30 independent states of East Asia (including Japan), South East Asia and the South Pacific (including Australia and New Zealand).

Electoral Systems

Electoral Systems
Author: David M. Farrell
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2011-01-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137285508

Electoral Systems examines the six principle types of electoral system currently in use in more than seventy of the world's democracies. A common format is adopted throughout, dealing with explanations of how the system operates and its effects on the political system. Electoral Systems examines the six principle types of electoral system currently in use in more than seventy of the world's democracies. A common format is adopted throughout, dealing with explanations of how the system operates and its effects on the political system.

Europeanised Politics?

Europeanised Politics?
Author: Klaus H. Goetz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1136336796

This comparative examination of the impact of European integration on the politics and government of EU member states covers the parties, the legal system, voters and public administration.

Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters

Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters
Author: G. Baldini
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2008-11-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230584381

This book gives a full account of past experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. The analysis is based on an original 1945-2007 comparative data set including all relevant political and institutional variables.

Ibss: Political Science: 1997

Ibss: Political Science: 1997
Author: British Library of Political and Economic Science
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 608
Release: 1999-01-14
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780415193009

Provides an unrivalled overview of intellectual development in political science.