Format:
1 online resource (242 pages)
ISBN:
9781139845366
Content:
This book explores the dynamics of electoral system choice and raises questions about the democratic credentials of the early processes of democratization.
Content:
Cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: contradictions and ambiguities of democratization -- The great electoral transformation -- Explaining electoral system choice -- Partisan electoral engineering -- Endogenous institutions -- Reading history forward -- 1. Understanding the starting point -- 2. Pre-democratic parties and working-class mobilization -- 3. The existential threat -- Engineering electoral dominance -- Plan of the book -- 2 Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation -- Working-class mobilization and strategies of containment -- "Right" parties -- Containment: repression and accommodation -- Repression -- Accommodation -- Strategies of containment, working-class mobilization, and the existential threat -- Electoral viability -- Ideological radicalism -- Conclusions -- 3 Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR) -- Preexisting electoral systems -- SMP and PR as electoral safeguards -- Logic of the choice -- No viable workers' party -- Workers' party electorally viable, ideologically moderate -- Workers' party electorally viable, mixed ideological platform -- Workers' parties electorally viable, ideologically radical -- Case study analysis -- 4 The United States: pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP -- Pre-industrial democratization and working-class mobilization -- Minority representation and the adoption of SMP -- Post-war politics and the campaign for PR -- The push for PR in Congress -- State-level reform -- New York -- Illinois -- Municipal reform and PR -- The success of containment and the defeat of PR -- Conclusions -- 5 The United Kingdom: safeguarding the Reform Acts with SMP -- Democratization and working-class mobilization -- PR and the Reform Act of 1867.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107031616
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107031616
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=1057555
