Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences by Bernard N. Grofman (Editor); Arend Lijphart (Editor)Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780875862675
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Duverger's law revisited / William H. Riker -- The influence of electoral systems: faulty laws or faulty method / Giovanni Sartori -- Duverger's law: forty years later / Maurice Duverger -- Intraparty preference voting / Richard S. Katz -- Thinking about the lingth and renewability of electoral terms / William R. Keeth -- Proportionality by non-PR methods: Ethnic representation in Belgium, Gyprus, Lebanon, New Zealand, West Germany, and Zimbabwe / Arend Lijphart -- Australian experience with majority-preferential and quota-preferential systems / Jack F.H. Wright -- The rise, decline and resurrection of proportional representation in local governments in the United States / Leon Weaver -- The limited vote and the single nontransferable vote: lessons from the Japanese and Spanish examples / Arend Lijphart, Rafael Lopez Pintor, and Yasunori Sone -- Decress of proportionality of proportional representation formulas / Arend Lijphart -- The geography of representation: a review of the findings / Peter J. Taylor, Graham Gudgin, and R.J. Johnston -- Social choice and pluralitylike electoral systems / Peter C. Fishburn -- The effect of at-large versus district elections on racial representation in U.S. municipalities / Richard L. Engstron and Michael D. McDonald -- The nonpartisan ballot in the United States / Carol A. Cassel -- Ballot formality in plurality partisan elections / Howard A. Scarrow -- Corss-endorsement and cross-filing in plurality partisan elections / Howard A. Scarrow -- Whatever happened to the reapportionment revolution in the United States / Gordon E. Baker -- Constituency redistribution in Britain: recent issues / Gordon E. Baker -- Districting choices under the single-transferable vote / Peter Mair.