Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used - or not, as the case may be - in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chambe…
Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used - or not, as the case may be - in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chambe…
Honesty in voting, it turns out, is not always the best policy. Indeed, in the early 1970s, Allan Gibbard and Mark Satterthwaite, building on the seminal work of Nobel laureate Kenneth Arrow, proved that with three or more alternatives there is no reasonable voting system that i…
An international team of political scientists explore the reasons for the dramatic shifts in voting patterns in 16 Western countries since 1970. They investigate the connections between social divisions and party choice and the manner in which these links have been changing sinc…
Setting the scene : waking the sleeping dog : a first draft of history -- Trump cards -- The irrelevance of geography and the forces of change -- Forces of reaction (identity, place and familiar face) -- Forces of reaction (immigration panic, walls and bridges) -- Forces of reac…
