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9780195044294

Democracy and Elections

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  • ISBN13:

    9780195044294

  • ISBN10:

    0195044290

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1997-10-02
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Summary

This book addresses the relationship between four values of democratic theory--popular sovereignty, liberalism, personal development, and community--and the electoral institutions used to implement them. After a chapter sketching the electoral institutions of Athens, the Roman Republic, the medieval church, and pre-reform Britain, the book examines what role elections are expected to play in a variety of democratic theories. The major theme of this section is that the four values are largely incompatible; therefore, different choices must be made between them. Part II addresses the empirical consequences of electoral institutions by examining electoral systems worldwide with the objective of finding the institutions most appropriate to each model of democracy. This impressive study provides empirical information on more electoral institutions in more countries than has ever been available in one volume before.

Table of Contents

One Values and Institutions
3(7)
Two Early Voting and Elections
10(16)
Three Popular Sovereignty
26(20)
Four Liberal Democracy
46(21)
Five Participationist Democracy
67(11)
Six Communitarian Democracy
78(22)
Seven The Roles of Elections
100(7)
Eight The Description of Electoral Systems
107(12)
Nine Representation: The Relationship between Seats and Votes
119(25)
Ten Parties and Governments
144(29)
Eleven Districting: Apportionment and Gerrymanders
173(19)
Twelve The Nature of Electoral Choice
192(24)
Thirteen The Electorate
216(30)
Fourteen Candidacy
246(32)
Fifteen Elections and Democracy
278(33)
Notes 311(28)
Index 339

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