Elections, Electoral Systems and Volatile Voters

✍ Scribed by Gianfranco Baldini, Adriano Pappalardo (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 241
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
What Democratic Elections Are, and What They Are Not....Pages 3-15
Electoral Systems in Contemporary Advanced Democracies: Basic Principles and Their Mechanics....Pages 16-37
Majoritarian Systems....Pages 38-59
Proportional Systems....Pages 60-79
Mixed-member Systems....Pages 80-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Electoral Rules: How Effective and Why....Pages 97-115
The French 2RS: Suited for Comparative Research?....Pages 116-129
Redesigning Cases and Indicators....Pages 130-149
From Theory to Evidence: Updating and Retesting Lijphart....Pages 150-168
Systemic Consequences, Past and Future....Pages 169-182
Back Matter....Pages 183-229

✦ Subjects

Comparative Politics; Political Science; Electoral Politics