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Electoral systems and political context : how the effects of rules vary across new and established democracies /
"This book highlights how new and established democracies differ from one another in the effects of their electoral rules"--
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Full text (Wentworth users only) |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Electoral Systems and Political Context: How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables and Figures; Abbreviations; Glossary of Key Terms; Acknowledgments and Note on the Online Appendix; Introduction: Why Don't Electoral Rules Have the Same Effects in All Countries?; STUDYING MIXED-MEMBER SYSTEMS TO UNDERSTAND THE EFFECTS OF ELECTORAL RULES; Types of Electoral Rules; The Types of Rules We Examine in this Book; How Mixed-Member Systems Are Useful to Analysts:Controlled Comparison.
- How Mixed-Member Systems Are Useful to Analysts:Controlled ComparisonHow Mixed-Member Systems Are Useful to Analysts:Controlled Comparison; THE ARGUMENT IN BRIEF; Specific Examples; NOTE TO THE READER ON HOW WE PRESENT THE ANALYSIS; PLAN FOR THE BOOK; IMPLICATIONS; 1 When Do the Effects of Electoral Systems Divergefrom Our Expectations?; WHY STUDY ELECTORAL SYSTEMS?; SOCIAL SCIENCE AND THE USE OF ASSUMPTIONS; DIFFERENCES AMONG AND WITHIN DEMOCRACIES; Established versus New Democracies; Differences in Party System Institutionalization; THE CONDITIONALITY OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM EFFECTS.
- ASSUMPTIONS AND ELECTORAL RULESELECTORAL SYSTEM THEORIES AND THEIR ASSUMPTIONS; ELECTORAL SYSTEMS, STRATEGIC VOTING, AND THE NUMBER OF PARTIES; Information Is Assumed to Be Widespread; Less Information, Less Strategic Defection, Less Duverger; THE INTERACTION BETWEEN ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND SOCIAL DIVERSITY; Not Everyone Votes Strategically; Another Possible Pattern; ELECTORAL SYSTEMS AND THE ELECTION OF WOMEN; Not All Parties Perceive an Advantage to Nominating Women; SMDs Do Not Always Require a Large Percentage of the Vote; Differences between New and Established Democracies.
- THE USEFULNESS OF WIDE VARIATIONTHE CONTAMINATION CRITIQUE AND ITS SHORTCOMINGS; The Contamination Critique; Shortcomings in Analysis of Contamination; Countervailing Evidence; Contamination Bias and the Controlled Comparison Approach; DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING MIXED-MEMBER ELECTORAL SYSTEMS; Linked Tiers; Electoral Formula; PR District Magnitude and Legal Threshold; SMD/PR Ratio; CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIX 2. CROSS-NATIONAL ANALYSIS OF THE NUMBER OF PARTIES AT THE SMD LEVEL: SMDS IN MIXED-MEMBER SYSTEMS DO NOT HAVE MORE CANDIDATES THAN SMDS IN PURE SYSTEMS.