Wrestling with democracy : voting systems as politics in the twentieth-century West / Dennis Pilon.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; 39.Publication details: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, ©2013.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 392 pages)Content type:- text
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- 9781442662735
- 1442662735
- Democracy -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century
- Voting -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century
- Political parties -- Western countries -- History -- 20th century
- Western countries -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Démocratie -- Occident -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Occident -- Politique et gouvernement -- 20e siècle
- Vote -- Occident -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Partis politiques -- Occident -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- General
- Democracy
- Political parties
- Politics and government
- Voting
- Western countries
- 1900-1999
- 321.809182/10904 23
- JC421 P55 2013eb
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-372) and indexes.
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Contextualizing Democracy -- Chapter 3: Prologue to the Democratic Era -- Chapter 4: Facing the Democratic Challenge 1900-1918 -- Chapter 5: Struggling with Democracy 1919-39 -- Chapter 6: The Cold War Democratic Compromise 1940-1969 -- Chapter 7: The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment 1970-2000.
"Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century.
In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change."--Pub. desc.
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