The Political Consequences Of Electoral Laws
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Author | : Douglas W. Rae |
Publisher | : New Haven : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Election law |
ISBN | : 9780300015171 |
"This study analyzes relationships between electoral laws and political party systems on a cross-national scale. Since these relationships are found in any political system with institutionalized, partisan elections--the liberal democracies--this cross-national strategy seems appropriate. Accordingly, I have tried to isolate those relationships between electoral laws and party systems which are general to the twenty liberal democracies included in the study, or to subclasses within the twenty. The emphasis is on the cross-national verification of certain hypothises, expressed as propositions in the text, and not on the description of events unique to individual national histories. These unique events are treated here only as specific instances of broad patterns." -from Preface.
Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : Algora Publishing |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0875862675 |
..." a usful volume on the impact of electoral laws...includes a very good bibliography and index...establishes a broader international and interdisciplinary perspective on the methods of representation." - American Political Science Review
Author | : Barry R. Weingast |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 2008-06-19 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0199548471 |
Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.
Author | : Bernard Grofman |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1999-11-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472109098 |
DIVConsiders how electoral rules affect election results and argues that the impact of the same electoral systems is different from one culture to another /div
Author | : Erik S. Herron |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1017 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0190258675 |
No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape the results not only of individual elections but also of many other important political outcomes, including party systems, candidate selection, and policy choices. Electoral systems have been a hot topic in established democracies from the UK and Italy to New Zealand and Japan. Even in the United States, events like the 2016 presidential election and court decisions such as Citizens United have sparked advocates to promote change in the Electoral College, redistricting, and campaign-finance rules. Elections and electoral systems have also intensified as a field of academic study, with groundbreaking work over the past decade sharpening our understanding of how electoral systems fundamentally shape the connections among citizens, government, and policy. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of the origins and effects of electoral systems.
Author | : Andrew Reynolds |
Publisher | : Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Erik J. Engstrom |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2014-10-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107050391 |
This book demonstrates that nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product of institutions that prescribed how votes were cast and were converted into political offices.
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.
Author | : Philipp Harfst |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2017-04-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 3658174463 |
Parties, governments and elites are at the core of the study of democracy. The traditional view is that parties as collective actors play a paramount role in the democratic process. However, this classical perspective has been challenged by political actors, observers of modern democracy as well as political scientists. Modern political parties assume different roles, contemporary leaders can more heavily influence politics, governments face new constraints and new collective bodies continue to form, propose new ways of participation and policy making, and attract citizens and activists. In the light of these observations, the comparative study of democracy faces a number of important and still largely unsolved questions that the present volume will address.
Author | : Gary W. Cox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 1997-03-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521585279 |
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.