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The limits of electoral reform /

"Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the rules, and citizen engagement with politics can be renewed. Yet a look at the record of elec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bowler, Shaun, 1958-
Otros Autores: Donovan, Todd
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, ©2013.
Colección:Comparative politics (Oxford University Press)
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-156) and index. 
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505 0 |a The Promise and Politics of Electoral Reform -- Institutional Change and Citizens -- Arguments for Change -- Partisan Interests and Expectations about Process -- Assessing Effects of Reforms: Changing the Electoral System -- Campaign Finance Reform: A Collection of Null Results -- Term Limits: Effects, But Not as Advertised -- Direct Legislation: Mobilization without Engagement -- The Limits of Electoral Institutions. 
520 |a "Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the rules, and citizen engagement with politics can be renewed. Yet a look at the record of electoral reform reveals a string of disappointments. This book examines a variety of reforms, including campaign finance, direct democracy, legislative term limits, and changes to the electoral system itself. This study finds electoral reforms have limited, and in many cases, no effects. Despite reform advocates' claims, and contrary to the 'institutions matter' literature, findings here suggest there are hard limits to effects of electoral reform. The explanations for this are threefold. The first is political. Reformers exaggerate claims about transformative effects of new electoral rules, yet their goal may simply be to maximize their partisan advantage. The second is empirical. Cross-sectional comparative research demonstrates that variation in electoral institutions corresponds with different patterns of political attitudes and behaviour. But this method cannot assess what happens when rules are changed. Using examples from the US, UK, New Zealand, Australia, and elsewhere this book examines attitudes and behaviour across time where rules were changed. Results do not match expectations from the institutional literature. Third is a point of logic. There is an inflated sense of the effects of institutions generally, and of electoral institutions in particular. Given the larger social and economic forces at play, it is unrealistic to expect that changes in electoral arrangements will have substantial effects on political engagement or on how people view politics and politicians. Institutional reform is an almost constant part of the political agenda in democratic societies. Someone, somewhere, always has a proposal not just to change the workings of the system but to reform it. The book is about how and why such reforms disappoint."--Publisher's website. 
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