wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta Under the Single Transferable Vote: Reflections on an Embedded Institution
ISBN: 9780472111596 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is often seen in very positive terms by electoral reformers, yet relatively little is known about its actual workings beyond one or two specific settings. This book gathers leading experts on STV from around the world to discuss the examples they know best, and represents the first systematic cross-national study of STV. Furthermore, the contributors collectively build an understanding of electoral systems as institutions embedded within a wider social and political context, and begins to explain the gap between analytical models and the actual practice...
The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is often seen in very positive terms by electoral reformers, yet relatively little is known about its actual wor...
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469,56 zł |
Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy
ISBN: 9780472087150 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy making in many states. Referenda, or ballot propositions, have resulted in limits on taxation and limits on the number of terms of elected officials, and have dealt with bilingual education, campaign finances, and affirmative action, in states all over the country.
Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan present a searching and original examination of how voters make decisions in direct referenda. The authors ask if voters have some information about the issue easily at their disposal and if they make choices... Referenda on important public policy questions have come to play a central role in policy making in many states. Referenda, or ballot propositions, ha...
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147,15 zł |
The Future Is Ours: Minority Citizens, Political Behavior, and the Multiracial Era of American Politics
ISBN: 9781604267273 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Today's demographic reality is a "majority-minority" America wherein racial and ethnic minorities comprise a growing share of the U.S. population and electorate, and are themselves becoming more diverse and representing more decisive votes. How America evolves as a society and a polity depends on whether and how these new Americans access and are accommodated by existing institutions. "The Future is Ours" offers a data-based examination of whether (and exactly how) minority citizens differ from members of the white majority - in political participation, voting preferences, policy opinions,...
Today's demographic reality is a "majority-minority" America wherein racial and ethnic minorities comprise a growing share of the U.S. population and ...
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394,21 zł |
Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions
ISBN: 9780230604452 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the question: Does direct democracy harm representative democracy?"
In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the...
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195,87 zł |
Direct Democracy's Impact on American Political Institutions
ISBN: 9781349372096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the question: Does direct democracy harm representative democracy?"
In this volume a series of contributions look at the impact of direct democracy on those processes of representative democracy to raise and answer the...
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195,87 zł |
The Limits of Electoral Reform
ISBN: 9780199695409 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected officials and citizens behave. Change the rules, and citizen engagement with politics can be renewed. Yet a look at the record of electoral reform reveals a string of disappointments. This book examines a variety of reforms, including campaign finance, direct democracy, legislative term limits, and changes to the electoral system itself. This study finds electoral reforms have limited, and in many cases, no effects. Despite reform advocates'...
Institutions 'matter' to electoral reform advocates and political scientists - both argue that variation in electoral institutions affect how elected ...
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583,70 zł |