Many Faces of Strategic Voting
Strategic voting is classically defined as "voting for one's second preferred option to prevent one's least preferred option from winning when one's first preference has no chance." Voters want their votes to be effective, and casting a ballot that will have no influence on an e…
Many Faces of Strategic Voting
Strategic voting is classically defined as "voting for one's second preferred option to prevent one's least preferred option from winning when one's first preference has no chance." Voters want their votes to be effective, and casting a ballot that will have no influence on an e…
"This is the first book-length study of its kind to analyse the effects of electoral systems on the representative activities of elected parliamentary representatives. Two unique sets of data were gathered for this study and this is the first time the results have been published…
Diagnoses what is wrong with our elections and proposes a radically new and simple solution, a Democracy Index that would rate the performance of state and local election systems. A rough equivalent to the U.S. News and World Report ranking of colleges and universities, the Inde…
World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties, Fourth Edition provides the most comprehensive coverage available on the governments and political parties of the world's nations. Each country is described in terms of its system and organization of government, as well as the…
Multiparty elections have become the bellwether by which all democracies are judged, and the spread of these systems across Africa has been widely hailed as a sign of the continent2019s progress towards stability and prosperity. But such elections bring their own challenges, par…