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Making Votes Count
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Author : Gary W. Cox
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1997-03-28
Making Votes Count written by Gary W. Cox and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-03-28 with Political Science categories.
Popular elections are at the heart of representative democracy. Thus, understanding the laws and practices that govern such elections is essential to understanding modern democracy. In this book, Cox views electoral laws as posing a variety of coordination problems that political forces must solve. Coordination problems - and with them the necessity of negotiating withdrawals, strategic voting, and other species of strategic coordination - arise in all electoral systems. This book employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. This book also considers not just what happens when political forces succeed in solving the coordination problems inherent in the electoral system they face but also what happens when they fail.
Making Votes Count
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Author : Martin Linton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Making Votes Count written by Martin Linton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Elections categories.
Making Votes Count 2
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Author : Patrick Dunleavy
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998-01-01
Making Votes Count 2 written by Patrick Dunleavy and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-01-01 with Elections categories.
Making Every Vote Count
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Author : British Columbia. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
language : en
Publisher: Citizens' Assembly
Release Date : 2004
Making Every Vote Count written by British Columbia. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform and has been published by Citizens' Assembly this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Election law categories.
The first part of this technical report briefly reviews the current system of voting in British Columbia, then describes the single transferable voting process that has been recommended for adoption by the Citizen's Assembly on Electoral Reform. The second part describes the work of the Assembly its selection phase, learning phase, public hearings phase, and the final deliberation phase when the recommendations on electoral reform were made. It also summarizes an evaluation of the Assembly's work and the Assembly's activities in communications & public awareness. The final part contains supporting materials including a history of the Assembly, information on the approach used to select Assembly members, documents used in the selection phase, and a glossary.
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count
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Author : Henry Milner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count written by Henry Milner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Elections categories.
Making Votes Count
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
Making Votes Count written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Comparative government categories.
Making Democracy Count
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Author : Ismar Volić
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2024-04-02
Making Democracy Count written by Ismar Volić and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-02 with Mathematics categories.
How we can repair our democracy by rebuilding the mechanisms that power it What’s the best way to determine what most voters want when multiple candidates are running? What’s the fairest way to allocate legislative seats to different constituencies? What’s the least distorted way to draw voting districts? Not the way we do things now. Democracy is mathematical to its very foundations. Yet most of the methods in use are a historical grab bag of the shortsighted, the cynical, the innumerate, and the outright discriminatory. Making Democracy Count sheds new light on our electoral systems, revealing how a deeper understanding of their mathematics is the key to creating civic infrastructure that works for everyone. In this timely guide, Ismar Volić empowers us to use mathematical thinking as an objective, nonpartisan framework that rises above the noise and rancor of today’s divided public square. Examining our representative democracy using powerful clarifying concepts, Volić shows why our current voting system stifles political diversity, why the size of the House of Representatives contributes to its paralysis, why gerrymandering is a sinister instrument that entrenches partisanship and disenfranchisement, why the Electoral College must be rethought, and what can work better and why. Volić also discusses the legal and constitutional practicalities involved and proposes a road map for repairing the mathematical structures that undergird representative government. Making Democracy Count gives us the concrete knowledge and the confidence to advocate for a more just, equitable, and inclusive democracy.
Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic
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Author : Samuel Merrill
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Making Multicandidate Elections More Democratic written by Samuel Merrill and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Political Science categories.
This book addresses a significant area of applied social-choice theory--the evaluation of voting procedures designed to select a single winner from a field of three or more candidates. Such procedures can differ strikingly in the election outcomes they produce, the opportunities for manipulation that they create, and the nature of the candidates--centrist or extremist--whom they advantage. The author uses computer simulations based on models of voting behavior and reconstructions of historical elections to assess the likelihood that each multicandidate voting system meets political objectives. Alternative procedures abound: the single-vote plurality method, ubiquitous in the United States, Canada, and Britain; runoff, used in certain primaries; the Borda count, based on rank scores submitted by each voter; approval voting, which permits each voter to support several candidates equally; and the Hare system of successive eliminations, to name a few. This work concludes that single-vote plurality is most often at odds with the majoritarian principle of Condorcet. Those methods most likely to choose the Condorcet candidate under sincere voting are generally the most vulnerable to manipulation. Approval voting and the Hare and runoff methods emerge from the analyses as the most reliable. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count
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Author : Henry Milner
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2004
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count written by Henry Milner and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count brings together the best analyses from the best qualified observers on developments in the growing movement to reform Canada's electoral system. Among mature democracies, only the United States and Canada use the first-past-the-post (FPTP) system for electing all state and provincial, as well as national, law makers. In Canada the debate over the electoral system, which began in earnest after the 1997 federal election, is now moving from the university and think-tank seminar room to the floor of five provincial legislatures. Four key chapters present up-to-date accounts of developments in BC, Quebec, PEI, and Ontario. They show the provinces moving at different speeds toward meeting an objective to propose a specific model of proportional representation that also ensures a continued role for directly elected representatives of specific geographic boundaries. Two chapters recount experiences in New Zealand and Scotland, which adopted electoral plans attempting just such a balance. Others look at South Africa, Japan, Frances, and the United States - each selected for the light its casts on a specific aspect of electoral system reform. The remaining chapters consider various practical implications of changing Canada's electoral system - now a very real prospect.
Making All Votes Count
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Author : Jerry Spriggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-31
Making All Votes Count written by Jerry Spriggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-31 with categories.
"Making All Votes Count!" presents a proportional presidential voting approach called, "Equal Voice Voting." It examines the 15 presidential elections from 1960-2016, comparing election results with what could have happened in those elections if Equal Voice Voting were used instead on a state-by-state basis. Equal Voice Voting closely mirrors the popular vote results while maintaining the voting voice of each state. It preserves the Electoral College and retains the Founding Fathers' intent without requiring a constitutional amendment. The results from the 2016 presidential election are compared with what could have happened if Equal Voice Voting had been used instead, on a state-by-state basis as well as across the nation. Attention is given to alternate voting approaches, such as: the popular vote, the national popular vote and congressional district voting. Attention is also given to gerrymandering showing how it is often used to manipulate voting outcomes. "Making All Votes Count!" can be used as an educational tool, as a ready reference for past presidential elections and as a tool to encourage future legislation. More than a fact-based resource, "Making All Votes Count" urges readers and legislators alike to remedy a systemic problem of our current all-or-nothing (some call it winner-takes-all) voting approach that causes many votes (and voters) to not matter in the final presidential election results. "Making All Votes Count!" points out that Equal Voice Voting can be instituted on a state-by-state basis without enacting a constitutional amendment or relying on an interstate compact. Equal Voice Voting can become a reality through the efforts of legislators interested in having all of their constituents matter rather than a selected percentage of voters.