[PDF] A Short History Of Electoral Systems In Western Europe eBook

Author : Andrew McLaren Carstairs
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,41 MB
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1135026785

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This book provides a concise and accessible account of the historical experience of European parliaments – why different electoral systems were adopted, how they have functioned, how they have affected the development of political parties, and in what respects they have been found over time to be either suitable or unsatisfactory. The book begins with a summary of the main electoral systems, analysing and re-assessing each in the light of historical experience. The core of the book, however, is a country-by-country account of the systems which have operated in each of the main West European countries, in the context of their own constitutional, political and social developments.

Author : B. Owen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 12,83 MB
Release : 2013-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137374373

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This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems.

Author : Erik S. Herron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1017 pages
File Size : 50,32 MB
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0190258675

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No subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape the results not only of individual elections but also of many other important political outcomes, including party systems, candidate selection, and policy choices. Electoral systems have been a hot topic in established democracies from the UK and Italy to New Zealand and Japan. Even in the United States, events like the 2016 presidential election and court decisions such as Citizens United have sparked advocates to promote change in the Electoral College, redistricting, and campaign-finance rules. Elections and electoral systems have also intensified as a field of academic study, with groundbreaking work over the past decade sharpening our understanding of how electoral systems fundamentally shape the connections among citizens, government, and policy. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of the origins and effects of electoral systems.

Author : R. Dandoy
Publisher : Springer
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 19,91 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137025441

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Utilizing both historical and new research data, this book analyzes voting patterns for local and national elections in thirteen west European countries from 1945-2011. The result of rigorous and in-depth country studies, this book challenges the popular second-order model and presents an innovative framework to study regional voting patterns.

Author : Ben Reilly
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 73 pages
File Size : 34,76 MB
Release : 1999-05-04
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309519101

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This paper is one of a series being prepared for the National Research Council's Committee on International Conflict Resolution. The committee was organized in late 1995 to respond to a growing need for prevention, management, and resolution of violent conflict in the international arena, a concern about the changing nature and context of such conflict in the post-Cold War era, and a recent expansion of knowledge in the field. The committee's main goal is to advance the practice of conflict resolution by using the methods and critical attitude of science to examine the effectiveness of various techniques and concepts that have been advanced for preventing, managing, and resolving international conflicts. The committee's research agenda has been designed to supplement the work of other groups, particularly the Carnegie Corporation of New York's Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict, which issued its final report in December 1997. The committee has identified a number of specific techniques and concepts of current interest to policy practitioners and has asked leading specialists on each one to carefully review and analyze available knowledge and to summarize what is known about the conditions under which each is or is not effective. These papers present the results of their work.

Author : Daniele Caramani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2004-03-29
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780521535205

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Author : Terri E. Givens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,70 MB
Release : 2005-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521851343

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Author : Andrew Reynolds
Publisher : Stockholm : International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 36,22 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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