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Real choices/new voices : how proportional representation elections could revitalize American democracy /

Main Author: Amy, Douglas J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2002.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Proportional representation > United States.
Elections > United States.
United States > Politics and government > 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > Legislative Branch.
Elections.
Politics and government
United States.
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=79577
Table of Contents:
  • Fair representation for all
  • Solving the redistricting problem
  • Improving election campaigns
  • Toward a multiparty system
  • Electing more women
  • Fair representation for racial and ethnic minorities
  • Encouraging voter turnout
  • PR: a different and better kind of democracy
  • Objections to proportional representation
  • Versions of electoral reform for the United States
  • The political prospects for PR in the United States
  • Seat allocation formulas in proportional representation
  • Vote counting and ballot transfer in the single transferable vote
  • The forgotten history of proportional representation in the United States.

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