This book gives a full account of past experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. The analysis is based on an original 1945-2007 comparative data set including all relevant political and institutional variables. ÍNDICE: - PART I - What Democratic Elections Are, and What They Are Not - Electoral Systems in Contemporary Advanced Democracies: Basic Principles and their Mechanics - Majoritarian Systems - Proportional Systems - Mixed-Member Systems - PART II - Electoral Rules: How Effective and Why - The French 2RS: Suited for Comparative Research? - Re-Designing Cases and Indicators - From Theory to Evidence: Updating and Re-Testing Lijphart - Systemic Consequences, Past and Future
- ISBN: 978-0-230-57448-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 21/11/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés