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Author: Gregory Conti
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 433
ISBN-13: 1108428738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?
Author: Pippa Norris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-02-09
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780521536714
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.
Author: John H Aldrich
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2018-11-20
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 0472131028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party majority in parliamentary systems, when their own candidate is from a party that has no hope of winning. In their thought-provoking book The Many Faces of Strategic Voting, Laura B. Stephenson, John H. Aldrich, and André Blais first provide a conceptual framework for understanding why people vote strategically, and what the differences are between sincere and strategic voting behaviors. Expert contributors then explore the many facets of strategic voting through case studies in Great Britain, Spain, Canada, Japan, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and the European Union.
Author: Shane Martin
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 785
ISBN-13: 0199653011
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLegislatures are arguably the most important political institution in modern democracies. The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies, written by some of the most distinguished legislative scholars in political science, provides a comprehensive and up-to-date description and critical assessment of the state of the art in this key area.
Author: Reuven Y. Hazan
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780415360142
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book - previously published as a special issue of the Journal of Legislative Studies - asks why legislative unity is one of the distinguishing features of modern political parties.
Author: Wolfgang C. Müller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1999-08-28
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521637237
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the behaviour of political parties in situations where they experience conflict between two or more important objectives.
Author: Sven-Oliver Proksch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 110707276X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explains how parties and their members of parliament structure parliamentary debate, providing novel insights into intra-party politics and representation.
Author: Josep M. Colomer
Publisher: ECPR Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 214
ISBN-13: 1907301577
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPersonal representation is a necessary element to achieve a high quality of democracy. Many studies of electoral systems, by focusing on the allocation of seats to parties, have neglected the study of this essential dimension. In democratic countries different ballot forms and rules exist to vote for individual candidates and to allocate seats to individuals. This book studies the different voting procedures and formulas for personal representation, their origins and consequences, their compatibility with party representation and the strategies and normative criteria for electoral system choice. It presents an analytical framework, new empirical data, an innovative classification of electoral systems, and reproduction of ballots from different countries. The different chapters also offer a number of comparative and single-case studies on candidate selection and on voting in single-seat districts, closed party lists, primary elections, mixed systems, open lists with preferential votes, and open and ordinal ballots.
Author: Kris Deschouwer
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-05-15
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0191507482
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModern democracy is organized as a representative democracy in which those representing the people are elected to office. Political parties play a crucial role in this. They select the candidates, form or oppose governments, and organize the work of the representatives in parliament. This model of democracy is however being criticized. Parties are hardly trusted and voters have become volatile. How, then, do elected representatives of the people see and fulfil their role? To study this a survey was organized among the members of statewide and sub-state parliaments in fifteen countries. Members of seventy-three parliamentary assemblies were asked how they perceive their representative role, what they do to keep in touch with voters, how they behave and vote in parliament and how they will try to get re-elected. One of the ways in which candidates and elected members of parliament might react to the changing conditions in which they have to represent the people is by stressing more personal characteristics as opposed to the party label and party ideology. Representation might then become more a matter of personal choice. The results of the survey presented in this book do however confirm quite strongly that representation is very much shaped by the political institutions in which it is performed. Representation differs between countries, between different electoral systems, between statewide and regional parliaments, and depends strongly on the party to which a member of parliament belongs. Representation depends not as much on who the representatives are, as on where they are.
Author: Gianluca Passarelli
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2020-08-15
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783030252885
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the effects of preferential voting on intraparty electoral competition and voting behavior. Using data covering 19 countries and over 200 elections, this study sheds light on a somewhat neglected aspect of electoral systems. The author demonstrates that the ability of voters to influence the selection and deselection of MPs under preferential voting systems is not as important as is often assumed. Instead, their ability to shape the election of a given candidate depends heavily on the balance between party power and voter power. In this way, this book advances the understanding of the effect of preferential voting on intra-party dynamics, parliamentary turnover, and voter behavior. Based on a rigorous, data-led methodological approach, the book contributes to both the theory and practice of the study of electoral systems, and should be read by scholars, students and practitioners interested in preferential voting systems.
