Wrestling with Democracy : Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pilon, Dennis, 1965-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Voting.
Politics and government
Political parties.
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > World > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > General.
Partis politiques > Occident > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Vote > Occident > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Democratie > Occident > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Political parties > Western countries > History > 20th century.
Voting > Western countries > History > 20th century.
Democracy > Western countries > History > 20th century.
Western countries.
Occident > Politique et gouvernement > 20e siecle.
Western countries > Politics and government > 20th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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