Seats And Votes
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Seats And Votes
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Author : Rein Taagepera
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Seats And Votes written by Rein Taagepera and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Proportional representation. categories.
Votes From Seats
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Author : Matthew S. Shugart
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-10-19
Votes From Seats written by Matthew S. Shugart 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 2017-10-19 with Political Science categories.
Four laws of party seats and votes are constructed by logic and tested, using physics-like approaches which are rare in social sciences.
Seats Votes And The Spatial Organisation Of Elections
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Author : Graham Gudgin
language : en
Publisher: ECPR Press
Release Date : 2012-09-26
Seats Votes And The Spatial Organisation Of Elections written by Graham Gudgin and has been published by ECPR Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-26 with History categories.
In many elections – especially those using single-member constituency systems – the allocation of seats is incommensurate with each party's share of the votes cast. Seats, Votes and the Spatial Organisation of Elections provides a convincing, rigorous analysis of this disproportionality which has not been improved on since its publication over 30 years ago. Its formal analysis, illustrated by empirical examples from a range of countries, stresses the importance of three geographies as key influences on how votes are translated into seats: the geography of partisan support (where people with different political persuasions cluster); the homogeneity of those clusters; and their relative size. Its re-publication makes this classic piece of spatial (political) science available to contemporary audiences, for whom it is as relevant as when the book first appeared in 1979; Ron Johnston's introductory essay sets the work in context and identifies its importance as the foundation for three decades of subsequent work into this key feature of electoral system operation.
Seats Votes And The Spatial Organisation Of Elections
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Author : G. Gudgin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Seats Votes And The Spatial Organisation Of Elections written by G. Gudgin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with categories.
From Votes To Seats
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Author : Larry Johnston
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007-01-01
From Votes To Seats written by Larry Johnston and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-01-01 with Elections categories.
This booklet discusses four families of electoral systems, how they work, and how counting votes under each system produces different outcomes, whether in the makeup of the legislature, the characteristics of the party system, or the nature of government. The four families of electoral systems include plurality, majority, proportional representation and mixed systems.--Document.
From Votes To Seats
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Author : Ron Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2001
From Votes To Seats written by Ron Johnston and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
From Votes to Seats is a study of the 14 general elections held between 1950 and 1997 in Britain. Arguing that the British electoral system treats political parties disproportionately, the authors show that the amount of bias in those elections results substantially increased over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. With the use of imaginative diagrams, this book examines the electoral process in detail, illustrating how it operates, while stressing the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results.
From Votes To Seats
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Author : Ontario. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
From Votes To Seats written by Ontario. Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Elections categories.
From From Votes To Seats
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Author : Roy Johnston
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2012-06-19
From From Votes To Seats written by Roy Johnston and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-19 with Political Science categories.
The British electoral system treats parties disproportionately and differentially. This original study of the fourteen general elections held between 1950 and 1997 shows that the amount of bias in those election results increased substantially over the period, benefiting Labour at the expense of the Conservatives. Labour's advantage peaked at the 1997 general election when, even assuming there had been an equal share of the votes for the two parties, it would have won 82 more seats than its opponents. This situation came about because of different aspects of two well-known electoral abuses - malapportionment and gerrymandering - which operate despite the non-partisan redistribution processes involved in defining new constituencies conducted on five occasions by the independent Boundary Commissions during the period studied. With the use of imaginative diagrams, the book examines these processes in detail, illustrating how they operate, and stresses the important role of tactical voting in the production of recent election results. This book will be of great interest to all students of the British electoral system, not least those concerned with its potential reform, for which the authors make detailed proposals.
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.
Predicting Party Sizes
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Author : Rein Taagepera
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2007-08-23
Predicting Party Sizes written by Rein Taagepera and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-23 with Political Science categories.
For a given electoral system, what average number and sizes of parties and government duration can we expect? Predicting Party Sizes is the first book to make specific predictions that agree with world averages. The basic factors are the numbers of seats in the assembly and in the average electoral district. While previous models tell us only the direction in which to change the electoral system, the present ones also tell us by how much they must be changed so as to obtain the desired change in average number of parties and cabinet duration. Hence, combined with known particularities of a country, they can be used for informed institutional design. The book is useful to three types of readers: political science students learning the basics of electoral systems and their political consequences; practitioners of politics who consider changing the electoral laws; and researchers intent on connecting electoral and party systems. The book is structured accordingly. Chapters start with advice and recipes for practicing politicians, in non-technical language. The main text gives students an overview of electoral systems, worldwide, and supplies evidence for models that tie simple electoral systems (First-Past-The-Post and List Proportional Representation) to the number and sizes of parties and government duration. Chapter appendices present derivations of these models and other more technical issues of interest to researchers.