Amel Ahmed

Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the dynamics of electoral system choice and raises questions about the democratic credentials of the early processes of democratization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. August 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 357g
• ISBN-13: 9781107484139
• ISBN-10: 1107484138
• Artikelnr.: 41644295

Autorenporträt

Amel Ahmed is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: contradictions and ambiguities of democratization; 2.
Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation; 3.
Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single
member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR); 4. The United
States: pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP; 5. The
United Kingdom: safeguarding the Reform Acts with SMP; 6. France: the
tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the Third Republic; 7.
Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR; 8. Conclusions:
rethinking democracy's determinisms; Appendix: the existential threat -
electoral viability and ideological radicalism.