Author: Rein Taagepera
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300043198
Category : Proportional representation.
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Matthew S. Shugart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108417027
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 361

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Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.

Author: Ron Johnston
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719058523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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From Votes to Seats is a study of the 14 general elections held between 1950 and 1997 in Britain. Arguing that the British electoral system treats political parties disproportionately, the authors show that the amount of bias in those elections results substantially increased over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. With the use of imaginative diagrams, this book examines the electoral process in detail, illustrating how it operates, while stressing the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.

Author: John H Aldrich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472901125
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 253

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Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.

Author: Lawrence LeDuc
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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11. Leaders - Ian McAllister

Author: Larry Johnston
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781424945290
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 59

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This booklet discusses four families of electoral systems, how they work, and how counting votes under each system produces different outcomes, whether in the makeup of the legislature, the characteristics of the party system, or the nature of government. The four families of electoral systems include plurality, majority, proportional representation and mixed systems.--Document.

Author: Gary W. Cox
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521001540
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: Abigail M. Thernstrom
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674951952
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348

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"A Twentieth Century Fund study."Includes indexes. Bibliography: p. [257]-302.

Author: Robert S. Erikson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521424059
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The authors demonstrate that state policies are highly responsive to public opinion through the analysis of state policies from the 1930s to the present.

Author: Erik J. Engstrom
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316165132
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 245

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This book explores the fascinating and puzzling world of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American elections. It examines the strategic behavior of nineteenth-century party politicians and shows how their search for electoral victory led them to invent a number of remarkable campaign practices. Why were parties dedicated to massive voter mobilization? Why did presidential nominees wage front-porch campaigns? Why did officeholders across the country tie their electoral fortunes to the popularity of presidential candidates at the top of the ticket? Erik J. Engstrom and Samuel Kernell demonstrate that the defining features of nineteenth-century electoral politics were the product of institutions in the states that prescribed how votes were cast and how those votes were converted into political offices. Relying on a century's worth of original data, this book uncovers the forces propelling the nineteenth-century electoral system, its transformation at the end of the nineteenth century, and the implications of that transformation for modern American politics.