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Author : Matthew S. Shugart,Rein Taagepera
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108417020
Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.
Author : Elections Canada
Publisher : Chief Electoral Officer of Canada
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000061501614
Cet ouvrage couvre la période qui va de 1758 à nos jours.
Author : Larry Johnston,Lawrence Walker Johnston,Ontario. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 59 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Elections
ISBN : 1424945291
This booklet discusses four families of electoral systems, how they work, and how counting votes under each system produces different outcomes, whether in the makeup of the legislature, the characteristics of the party system, or the nature of government. The four families of electoral systems include plurality, majority, proportional representation and mixed systems.--Document.
Author : James Bickerton,Patrick J. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015048769510
Ties That Bind looks at the socio-economic, ethnolinguistic, and demographic factors in party support; the enduring quality of these social bases; the importance of geography in structuring variations in the voter-party relationship; and electoral change as a function of the strategic decisions of the parties and their leaders and the voter response these decisions evoke.
Author : Bernard Grofman,André Blais,Shaun Bowler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780387097206
Maurice Duverger is arguably the most distinguished French political scientist of the last century, but his major impact has, strangely enough, been largely in the English-speaking world. His book, Political Parties, first translated into English in 1954, has been very influential in both the party politics literature (which continues to make use of his typology of party organization) and in the electoral systems literature. His chief contributions there deal with what have come to be called in his honor Duverger’s Law and Duverger’s Hypothesis. The first argues that countries with plurality-based electoral methods will tend to become two-party systems; the second argues that countries using proportional representation (PR) methods will tend to become multi-party systems. Duverger also identifies specific mechanisms that will produce these effects, conventionally referred to as “mechanical effects”, and “psychological effects”. However, while Duverger’s Hypothesis concerning the link between PR and multipartism is now widely accepted; the empirical evidence that plurality voting results in two-party systems is remarkably weak—with the U.S. the most notable exception. The chapters in this volume consider national-level evidence for the operation of Duverger’s law in the world’s largest, longest-lived and most successful democracies of Britain, Canada, India and the United States. One set of papers involves looking at the overall evidence for Duverger’s Law in these countries; the other set deals with evidence for the mechanical and incentive effects predicted by Duverger. The result is an incisive analysis of electoral and party dynamics.
Author : Rein Taagepera,Matthew Soberg Shugart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991-07-01
Category : Elections
ISBN : 0300050771
Author : Ronald John Johnston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025292454
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour's advantage peaked at the 1997 general election when, even assuming there had been an equal share of the votes for the two parties, it would have won 82 more seats than its opponents. This situation came about because of different aspects of two well-known electoral abuses - malapportionment and gerrymandering. With the use of imaginative diagrams the book examines these processes in detail, illustrating how they operate and stresses the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.
Author : Graham Gudgin,Peter James Taylor,Peter John Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Election districts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036090103
Author : Josep Maria Colomer
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907301162
Personal representation is an essential 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 a huge variety of ballot forms and rules exist to vote for individual candidates and to allocate seats. This book studies 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.
Author : Andrew Potter,Daniel Weinstock,Peter Loewen
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773550827
During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the “first past the post” electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast. In early 2017, the Liberals reneged on their campaign promise, declaring that there was a lack of public consensus about how to reform the system. Despite the broken promise – and because of the public outcry – discussions about electoral reform will continue around the country. Challenging the idea that first past the post is obsolete, Should We Change How We Vote? urges Canadians to make sure they understand their electoral system before making drastic changes to it. The contributors to this volume assert that there is perhaps no institution more misunderstood and misrepresented than the Canadian electoral system – praised by some for ensuring broad regional representation in Ottawa, but criticized by others for allowing political parties with less than half the popular vote to assume more than half the seats in Parliament. They consider not only how the system works, but also its flaws and its advantages, and whether or not electoral reform is legitimate without a referendum. An essential guide to the crucial and ongoing debate about the country’s future, Should We Change How We Vote? asks if there are alternative reforms that would be easier to implement than a complete overhaul of the electoral system.
Author : William P. Cross,Jonathan Malloy,Tamara A. Small,Laura B. Stephenson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774829304
Elections are not just about who casts ballots – they reflect the citizens, parties, media, and history of an electorate. Fighting for Votes examines how these factors interacted during a recent Ontario election. Drawing on a wealth of sources, the authors ask three questions: How do parties position themselves to appeal to voters? How is information from and about parties transmitted to voters? How do voters respond to the information around them? The result is a sophisticated analysis of how parties influence voters in an era when new media is reshaping the electoral landscape.
Author : John H Aldrich,André Blais,Laura B Stephenson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472131020
Voters 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 : Arend Lijphart,Bernard Grofman
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015009317432
This outstanding volume brings together major arguments on what constitutes the best electoral system, particulary on the relative merits of plurality and proportional representation
Author : Law Commission of Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCBK:C084904782
"Through the electoral process, citizens grant authority to their governments and to the laws governments enact. In recent years more and more Canadians have expressed their desire for improvements to our system of democratic governance, and to the mechanisms through which they can participate in government decision-making processes...This report aims to clarify the debates surrounding electoral reform: it reviews the arguments advanced to justify change, evaluates their relevance and cogency, and proposes a new model." -- p. vii.
Author : Kevin YL Tan,Terence Lee
Publisher : Ethos Books
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811807114
GE2020: an election that should not be forgotten for yielding startling outcomes, including the appointment of the first Leader of the Opposition. Voting in a Time of Change is part of a longitudinal study by editors Kevin YL Tan and Terence Lee, who have been assembling trenchant analyses of each General Election by leading academics and commentators since GE2011. Their long game makes possible specific and unique insights. Of GE2020, this is what they have to say: “The major political shift in Singapore that started in 2011 is marching on, even amidst a Covid-19 pandemic that was to have been a great disrupter. Whether we call this a ‘New Normal’ – as many did back in 2011 – or otherwise is not as important as the momentum for change that has built up since then. Covid-19 thus became a political backdrop to a social and political shift that was merely searching for a catalyst.” What insights and lessons can we carry forward to the next General Elections? This is an indispensable milestone publication for citizens who wish to commit to even more informed choices, and for political observers who are keeping close tabs on the evolution of our political landscape.