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Fixing elections : the failure of America's winner take all politics /
Fixing Elections shows our whole 18th-century Winner Take All political system, including the way we elect our legislatures. Steven Hill argues our geographic-based, Winner Take All political system is at the root of many of our worst political problems, including poor minority and majority represen...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Routledge,
2002.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part one. Geography is destiny
- Chapter one. "A house divided ..."
- Chapter two. Ex uno plures : "one system, two nations"
- Chapter three. The technology of democracy
- Part two. The people's Congress?
- Chapter four. The people's house
- Chapter five. Behind closed doors : the recurring plague of redistricting
- Chapter six. The gravity of the prize
- Chapter seven. Worse than winner take all : affirmative action for low-population states
- Part three. The death of discourse
- Chapter eight. Of pollster-geists and consultants : the mad science of winner take all campaigns
- Chapter nine. The wizards behind the curtain
- Chapter ten. The winner take all media : the fourth estate sells out
- Chapter eleven. Caught between a poll and a hard focus group : the loss of political ideas
- Part four. Majority rule? or majority fooled?
- Chapter twelve. Winner take all policy : where the majority does not always rule
- Chapter thirteen. The roller-coaster policy ride of winner take all
- Chapter fourteen. The gatekeepers of winner take all
- Chapter fifteen. "Winner takes nothing"
- Epilogue. Toward "E pluribus unum."