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Wrestling with Democracy : Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West /
In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto [Ont.] :
University of Toronto Press,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; |v [39] | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Contextualizing Democracy -- Chapter 3: Prologue to the Democratic Era -- Chapter 4: Facing the Democratic Challenge 1900-1918 -- Chapter 5: Struggling with Democracy 1919-39 -- Chapter 6: The Cold War Democratic Compromise 1940-1969 -- Chapter 7: The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment 1970-2000. | |
| 520 | 8 | |a In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change."--Pub. desc. | |
| 520 | |a "Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. | ||
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