Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice : engineering electoral dominance / Amel Ahmed.
พิมพ์ครั้งที่
1st ed.
พิมพลักษณ์
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
จำนวนหน้า
xii, 228 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
หมายเหตุบรรณานุกรม
Includes bibliographical references [p. 206-223] and index.
หมายเหตุสารบัญ
1. Introduction: contradictions and ambiguities of democratization -- 2. Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation -- 3. Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR) -- 4. The United Staes: pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP -- 5. The United Kingdom: safeguarding the reform acts with SMP -- 6. France: the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the third republic -- 7. Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR -- 8. Conclusions: rethinking democracy's determinisms -- Appendix: Theexistential threat - electoral viability and ideological radicalism.
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