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Designing Democratic Government Making Institutions Work / Margaret Levi ... [et al.], editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comparative government.
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (335 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2012
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- What are the essential elements of a democracy?How can nations ensure a political voice for all citizens, and design a government that will respond to those varied voices?These perennial questions resonate strongly in the midst of ongoing struggles to defend democratic institutions around the world and here at home.
- Contents:
- Mobilizing institutions and class bias in U.S. electrical politics, 1964 to 2004 / Jan E. Leighley and Jonathan Naglar
- Barriers to participation for whom? Regulations on voting and uncompetitive elections / Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan
- Mobilizing political engagement and participation in diverse societies : the impact of institutional arrangements / Susan A. Banducci and Jeffrey A. Karp
- Ethnic invention : a new principle for institutional design in ethnically divided democracies / Kanchan Chandra
- Evaluating the impact of redistricting on district homogeneity, political competition, and political extremism in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1962 to 2006 / Thomas L. Brunell and Bernard Grofman
- Redistricting institutions and competition in U.S. house districts / Michael P. McDonald
- An evaluation of the electoral and behavioral impact of majority-minority districts / David Lublin and Gary Segura
- Gerrymanders as trade-offs : the coevolution of social scientific and legal approaches to racial redistricting / David L. Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran
- The primary elections "bonus" in Latin America / John M. Carey and John Polga-Hecimovich
- Accuracy and security in voting systems / Henry E. Brady and Iris Hui
- Improving the measurement of election system performance in the United States / Charles Stewart III.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-61044-350-0
- OCLC:
- 835513966
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