Presents an analysis of electoral systems in 21 democracies and their impact in times of volatile voters and unstable electoral outcomes. This book offers a reappraisal of classical theories on electoral systems.
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that politica…
"This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules"-- "Why Don't Electoral Rules Have the Same Effects in All Countries? In the early 1990s, Japan and Russia each adopted a very similar version of a "mixed-m…
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. It will be of great interest to comparative legislative studies scholars and electoral systems specialists.
Elections and Democracy addresses the contrast between two different views on representative democracy. According to the first view elections are a mechanism to hold government accountable. In the second view elections are primarily a means to ensure that citizens' views and int…
This text is designed to give students a comprehensive view of the British electoral system. Its innovative comparative and theoretical approach will provide a link between courses in British politics, comparative politics and political theory. The book looks at electoral system…
An examination of electoral systems which points out the advantages and disadvantages of, for example, proportional representation and the first-past-the-post systems. The territorial dimension is explored and the way in which voting or election systems relate to democracy is an…
