عنوان
پدید آورنده
موضوع
رده
JC423 .A39 2013
JC423
.
A39
2013
کتابخانه
محل استقرار
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Terms of Availability and/or Price
(hardback)
Terms of Availability and/or Price
(hardback)
(Number (ISBN
1107031613
(Number (ISBN
9781107031616
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
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TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice :
General Material Designation
[Book]
Other Title Information
engineering electoral dominance /
First Statement of Responsibility
Amel Ahmed
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xii, 228 p. ;
Dimensions
24 cm
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: contradictions and ambiguities of democratization; 2. Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation; 3. Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR); 4. The United States: pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP; 5. The United Kingdom: safeguarding the reform acts with SMP; 6. France: the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the third republic; 7. Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR; 8. Conclusions: rethinking democracy's determinisms; Appendix: the existential threat: electoral viability and ideological radicalism
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
"Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies today were initially devised as exclusionary safeguards to protect pre-democratic elites from the impact of democratization and, particularly, the existential threat posed by working class mobilization"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Democracy
Democratization
Elections
Representative government and representation
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
JC423
Book number
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A39
2013
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Ahmed, Amel
ORIGINATING SOURCE
Date of Transaction
20130104083459.0
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Electronic name
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Y
