Wrestling with democracy

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."--Publisher's description.

Year

2013

Language

English

Series

Studies in comparative political economy and public policy -- 39

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Editions

1

Pages

392

ISBN

9781442645417

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