ilość książek w kategorii: 4950
Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
ISBN: 9780198280545 / Angielski / Miękka / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral systems are also the most practical and accessible instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies including those of Western Europe, the United States, Australia, Canada, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand. Using comparative and statistical analysis of these systems, Arend Lijphart demonstrates the effect of the electoral...
The most fundamental element of representative democracy is the electoral system--translating citizens' votes into representatives' seats. Electoral s...
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362,81 zł |
The End of Class Politics?: Class Voting in Comparative Context
ISBN: 9780198280958 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. In this book, leading scholars argue that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.
The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politi...
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648,01 zł |
Principles of Electoral Reform
ISBN: 9780198292463 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electoral reform is currently an extremely significant political issue in many countries, yet there is little real understanding or systematic discussion of it. In this timely and accessible new book, Professor Dummett, one of the most distinguished scholars in the field, analyzes the main forms of electoral systems used in legislative systems around the world, and generates a set of criteria that help to explain how we should decide which system we should have.
Electoral reform is currently an extremely significant political issue in many countries, yet there is little real understanding or systematic discuss...
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243,92 zł |
Social Cleavages and Political Change: Voter Alignment and U.S. Party Coalitions
ISBN: 9780198294924 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study provides the first systematic book-length reassessment and restatement of the sociological approach to American politics in more than 20 years. It examines the changing nature of social cleavages and their effect on political allegiances and voting behavior in the United States since the 1950s. It also challenges widespread arguments that the importance of social cleavages have declined precipitously in recent years.
This study provides the first systematic book-length reassessment and restatement of the sociological approach to American politics in more than 20 ye...
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838,14 zł |
Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780198295105 / Angielski / Twarda / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is a groundbreaking comparative study of the effect of institutional design on representation, political stability, and inter-ethnic/racial accommodation in the emerging democracies of Southern Africa. Analyzing the experiences of Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the author presents a host of revealing conclusions that help shed light on the success or failure of democratic design in other fledgling democracies.
This is a groundbreaking comparative study of the effect of institutional design on representation, political stability, and inter-ethnic/racial accom...
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838,14 zł |
The End of Class Politics?: Class Voting in Comparative Context
ISBN: 9780198296348 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politics. In this book, leading scholars argue that the class basis of political competition has to some degree evolved, but not declined. Furthermore, the sweeping claims about the new politics of postindustrial society need to be re-examined.
The last few decades has seen a prolonged debate over the nature and importance of social class as a basis for ideology, class voting and class politi...
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481,64 zł |
Leaders' Personalities, and the Outcomes of Democratic Elections
ISBN: 9780198297918 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique edited volume by some of the leading scholars in the field, examines the importance, or non-importance, of the personalities of political leaders in determining the outcomes of democratic elections. The book argues, contrary to conventional wisdom, that relatively few voters are swayed by candidates' personal characteristics. Their findings imply that modern democratic pointers is not nearly as candidate-cent red and personality-orientated as is often supposed. They also suggest that parties' policies and their performance in office usually count for far more than the men and...
This unique edited volume by some of the leading scholars in the field, examines the importance, or non-importance, of the personalities of political ...
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719,30 zł |
Parliamentary Representatives in Europe 1848-2000: Legislative Recruitment and Careers in Eleven European Countries
ISBN: 9780198297932 / Angielski / Twarda / 568 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book brings together leading scholars in the field of electoral studies and political representation to examine the democratization of the recruitment of political representatives in Western Europe. The study deals with long-term changes in parliamentary recruitment and patterns of political careers in eleven European countries from the middle of the 19th century until 2000. The book provides the first ever truly comparative study of parliamentary representation in Europe.
This book brings together leading scholars in the field of electoral studies and political representation to examine the democratization of the recrui...
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1313,48 zł |
Voting Procedures
ISBN: 9780198761884 / Angielski / Twarda / 318 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Combines a theoretical interest in the mathematics of voting procedures with practical interest in the circumstances in which votes are cast. The most important results in the theory of voting are surveyed, and the differences between the principal types of voting procedures are explained.
Combines a theoretical interest in the mathematics of voting procedures with practical interest in the circumstances in which votes are cast. The most...
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576,70 zł |
Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents
ISBN: 9780199202836 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North and South America (the United States, Chile and Uruguay), and Asia (Hong Kong) between 1990 and 2004. It is methodologically innovative, notwithstanding the fact that its core concern with "political intermediation" (i.e., the flow of political information from parties and candidates to voters...
This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. ...
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671,77 zł |
Democracy, Intermediation, and Voting on Four Continents
ISBN: 9780199202843 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. It is based on national election surveys held in "old" and "new" democracies in Europe (Germany, Britain, Spain, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Bulgaria), North and South America (the United States, Chile and Uruguay), and Asia (Hong Kong) between 1990 and 2004. It is methodologically innovative, notwithstanding the fact that its core concern with "political intermediation" (i.e., the flow of political information from parties and candidates to voters...
This book presents the results of systematic comparative analyses of electoral behavior and support for democracy in 13 countries on four continents. ...
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177,38 zł |
The Politics of Electoral Systems
ISBN: 9780199238675 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Electoral systems matter. They are a crucial link in the chain connecting the preferences of citizens to the policy choices made by governments. They are chosen by political actors and, once in existence, have political consequences for those actors. They are an important object of study for anyone interested in the political process. This book is a systematic analysis of electoral systems.
In addition to comparative chapters, the book contains full accounts of the operation of electoral systems in 22 countries: in addition to 11 from Western Europe, the book includes: Hungary, Russia,... Electoral systems matter. They are a crucial link in the chain connecting the preferences of citizens to the policy choices made by governments. They ...
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239,17 zł |
Political Institutions: Democracy and Social Choice
ISBN: 9780199241842 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. More complex political institutions produce more stable and socially efficient the outcomes; this book develops an extensive analysis of that relationship. It explores concepts, questions, and insights based on social choice theory, focusing on more than forty democratic countries and several international organizations from late medieval times to the present.
More complex political institutions produce more stable and socially efficient the outcomes; this book develops an extensive analysis of that relation...
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267,74 zł |
Elections and Democracy in Greater China
ISBN: 9780199244171 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines why and how limited electoral competition developed in Greater China. The editors attribute Taiwan's electoral competition to breakthroughs in the political, ideological, economic and organizational marketplaces. Without similar breakthroughs, Hong Kong and Mainland China aren't likely to achieve electoral competition.
This book examines why and how limited electoral competition developed in Greater China. The editors attribute Taiwan's electoral competition to break...
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224,91 zł |
Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook: Volume 1: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia
ISBN: 9780199249589 / Angielski / Twarda / 776 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elections in Asia, written by experts in the field, presents the first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia, and Oceania from their independence to the present. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendum are given in each chapter. The two volumes provides the definative resource for historical and cross-national comparisons of elections and electoral system worldwide.
Elections in Asia, written by experts in the field, presents the first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia, and...
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1491,72 zł |
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds?
ISBN: 9780199257683 / Angielski / Miękka / 680 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book evaluates why mixed-member systems have recently appealed to many countries with diverse electoral histories, and how well expectations for these systems have been met. Each major country that has adopted a mixed system is given two chapters, one on origins and one on consequences. The countries examined are Germany, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, Japan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Hungary, and Russia. In addition, there are chapters on the prospects for a mixed-member system being adopted in Britain and Canada.
This book evaluates why mixed-member systems have recently appealed to many countries with diverse electoral histories, and how well expectations for ...
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481,64 zł |
Putting Voters in Their Place: Geography and Elections in Great Britain
ISBN: 9780199268054 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and neighbours, and with what effect? Does the geography of well-being influence the geography of party support? Do parties try to talk to all voters at election time, or are they interested only in the views of a small number of voters living in a small number of seats? Is electoral participation in decline, and how does the geography of the vote affect this? How can a party win a majority of seats in Parliament without a majority of votes in the...
Why do people living in different areas vote in different ways? Why does this change over time? How do people talk about politics with friends and nei...
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248,72 zł |
Representing Europe's Citizens?: Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation
ISBN: 9780199285020 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The past 15 years have seen declining public support for European integration, and widespread suggestions that a legitimacy crisis faces the European Union (EU). Many in the EU have believed that this problem could be effectively tackled by vesting greater powers in the European Parliament (EP), the Union's only directly-elected institution. The central argument of this book is that, while considerable efforts have been made to increase the status of the EP, it is in crucial respects a failure as a representative body. This failure is grounded in the manner in which the parliament is elected....
The past 15 years have seen declining public support for European integration, and widespread suggestions that a legitimacy crisis faces the European ...
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329,53 zł |
Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate
ISBN: 9780199286720 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How does representative democracy work in the modern age? Examining 21 post-war democracies, this strikingly innovative approach by two world-class scholars demonstrates how the voter in the middle--the median elector--empowers the centre party in parliament to translate political preferences into public policy.
How does representative democracy work in the modern age? Examining 21 post-war democracies, this strikingly innovative approach by two world-class sc...
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695,54 zł |
Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems
ISBN: 9780199287741 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect? Predicting Party Sizes is the first book to make specific predictions that agree with world averages. The basic factors are the numbers of seats in the assembly and in the average electoral district. While previous models tell us only the direction in which to change the electoral system, the present ones also tell us by how much they must be changed so as to obtain the desired change in average number of parties and cabinet duration. Hence, combined with known particularities of a...
For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect? Predicting Party Sizes is the first book...
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695,54 zł |