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Dennis Pilon - Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West - 9781442645417 - V9781442645417
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Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West

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Description for Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West hardcover. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century. Series: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 30. Weight in Grams: 720.

Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century.

In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442645417
SKU
V9781442645417
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About Dennis Pilon
Dennis Pilon is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.

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