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Proportional Representation: Critics of the British Electoral System 1820-1945
ISBN: 9780198201366 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Offering the first scholarly history of the proportional representation movement, Hart explores its origins in the early nineteenth century and analyzes the contribution of major political thinkers such as Thomas Hare and John Stuart Mill. She traces the history of the early campaigns and the progress and vicissitudes of the cause through the twentieth century. Based on extensive research, this is an accessible and comprehensive study which throws light on many of the questions which bedevil contemporary political commentators. Hart demonstrates the inadequacy of the commonly made...
Offering the first scholarly history of the proportional representation movement, Hart explores its origins in the early nineteenth century and analyz...
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278,94 zł |
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British By-Elections: The Volatile Electorate
ISBN: 9780198273301 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By-elections in constituencies such as Orpington, Bermondsey, and Govan generate headline news in England and raise fundamental questions concerning why third parties manage unexpected breakthroughs, and why the government consistently loses support through the "mid-term blues." The first systematic study of British by-elections, this book addresses these questions through an analysis of postwar trends in party support. The first section addresses changes in campaigns, contrasting the stable by-elections of the postwar decade with the more volatile races characteristic of today. The second...
By-elections in constituencies such as Orpington, Bermondsey, and Govan generate headline news in England and raise fundamental questions concerning w...
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394,46 zł |
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Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990
ISBN: 9780198273479 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 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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630,15 zł |
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Electioneering: A Comparative Study of Continuity and Change
ISBN: 9780198273752 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elections in all the world's democracies have changed radically over the past forty years. The advent of television, opinion polls, and campaign consultants has transformed them--but what some see as the "Americanization" of electioneering has happened very differently in different countries. In this book, acknowledged local experts explore how far elections have been "Americanized" in ten countries or regions, including the United States, Britain, Japan, and Latin America. Their essays shed light on the diversity of how democratic choice is made. They also discuss campaigning methods and...
Elections in all the world's democracies have changed radically over the past forty years. The advent of television, opinion polls, and campaign consu...
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385,22 zł |
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Electoral Politics
ISBN: 9780198273813 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Elections are universal methods of political choice and decision-making. This book includes essays on key topics of voting behaviour, election rules, the media, election pacts, and the consequences of elections. The distinguished authors are drawn from both sides of the Atlantic--including Donald Stokes, Austin Ranney, Richard Rose, Anthony King, and Dennis Kavanagh. They form a tribute to the famous student of elections, David Butler.
Elections are universal methods of political choice and decision-making. This book includes essays on key topics of voting behaviour, election rules, ...
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791,88 zł |
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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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389,84 zł |
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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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664,80 zł |
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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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251,21 zł |
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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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861,20 zł |
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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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861,20 zł |
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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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491,52 zł |
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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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734,12 zł |
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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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1346,40 zł |
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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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583,94 zł |
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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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514,62 zł |
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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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137,95 zł |
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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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260,46 zł |
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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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274,32 zł |
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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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230,37 zł |
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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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1519,70 zł |