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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9781442662735

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , 1. Introduction -- , 2. Contextualizing Democracy -- , 3. Prologue to the Democratic Era -- , 4. Facing the Democratic Challenge, 1900-1918 -- , 5. Struggling with Democracy, 1919-1939 -- , 6. The Cold War Democratic Compromise, 1940-1969 -- , 7. The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment, 1970-2000 -- , 8. Conclusion -- , Notes -- , Select Bibliography -- , Author Index -- , Subject Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442662735

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442662735

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Format: 1 online resource (409 pages).

ISBN: 9781442662735 (e-book)

Series Statement: Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy

Additional Edition: Print version: Pilon, Dennis, 1965- Wrestling with democracy : voting systems as politics in the twentieth-century West. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, c2013 ISBN 9781442613508

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (XIII, 392 S.).

ISBN: 978-1-4426-6273-5

Series Statement: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-4426-4541-7

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Paperback ISBN 978-1-4426-1350-8

Language: English

Subjects: Political Science

Keywords: Wahlrechtsreform ; Demokratie

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Format: 1 online resource (409 p.)

ISBN: 1-4426-6274-3 , 1-4426-6273-5

Series Statement: Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; [39]

Content: 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.

Content: "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.

Note: 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. , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4426-4541-5

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4426-1350-5

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442662735