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Elections as instruments of democracy : majoritarian and proportional visions / G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
LIBRA JF1001 .P674 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Powell, G. Bingham.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Elections.
- Democracy.
- Representative government and representation.
- Majorities.
- Proportional representation.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 298 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2000]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-292) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0300080158
- 0300080166
- OCLC:
- 42960488
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