Isabela Mares

From Open Secrets to Secret Voting

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Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an account of the adoption of electoral reforms democratizing electoral practices in nineteenth century European countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781107495296
• ISBN-10: 1107495296
• Artikelnr.: 42396644

Autorenporträt

Isabela Mares is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. She has conducted research on comparative democratization and electoral reform, comparative political economy, and comparative social policy. She is the author of The Politics of Social Risk (Cambridge University Press, 2003), which won the Gregory Luebbert Award of the American Political Science Association for best book in comparative politics, and of Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The protection of voters' autonomy
3. Electoral intimidation by state employees
4. Electoral intimidation by private actors
5. The production of irregularities at times of elections: a quantitative analysis
6. The adoption of electoral reforms
7. Labor scarcity, rural inequality, and electoral reforms: the determinants for electoral reform of the Prussian electoral system
8. Voting for opposition candidates: economic concentration, skills, and political support for social democracy
9. Dilemmas on the right and the road to proportional representation
10. From macro- to micro-historical analysis in comparative research.