Electoral Laws & Their Political Consequences.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grofman, Bernard.

Contributor:

Lijphart, Arend, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comparative government.

Election law.

Elections.

Voting.

Local Subjects:

Comparative government.

Election law.

Elections.

Voting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Algora Publishing, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this book is to provide an overview of recent research on electoral laws and their political consequences by scholars who have helped shape the field.

Contents:

CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; List of Tables and Figures; About the Editors; About the Contributors; Introduction; Part I. The Effect of Election Type on Political Competition; 1. Duverger's Law Revisited; 2. The Influence of Electoral Systems: Faulty Laws or Faulty Method?; 3. Duverger's Law: Forty Years Later; 4. Intraparty Preference Voting; 5. Thinking about the Length and Renewability of Electoral Terms; Part II. Evaluating the Impact of Electoral Laws: Proportional and Semiproportional Systems Case Studies

6. Proportionality by Non-PR Methods: Ethnic Representation in Belgium, Cyprus, Lebanon, New West Germany and Zimbabwe 7. Australian Experience with Majority-Preferential and Quota-Preferential Systems; 8. The Rise, Decline and Resurrection of Proportional Representation in Local Governments in the United States; 9. The Limited Vote and the Single Nontransferable Vote: Lessons from the Japanese and Spanish Examples; 10. Degrees of Proportionality of Proportional Representation Formulas; Part III. Evaluating the Impact of Electoral Laws: Plurality Systems

11. The Geography of Representation: A Review of Recent Findings 12. Social Choice and Plurality like Electoral Systems; 13. The Effect of At-Large Versus District Elections on Racial Representation in U.S. Municipalities; 14. The Nonpartisan Ballot in the United States; 15. Ballot Format in Plurality Partisan Elections; 16. Cross-Endorsement and Cross-Filling in Plurality Partisan Elections; Part IV. Redistricting; 17. Whatever Happened to the Reapportionment Revolution in the United States?; 18. Constituency Redistribution in Britain: Recent Issues

19. Districting Choices under the Single-Transferable Vote References; List of Court Cases; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC:

476114034