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Counting the many : the origins and limits of supermajority rule
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ISBN: 1107423538 1139013971 0521198232 0521124492 9780521124492 9780521198233 9781139013970 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York: Cambridge university press,

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Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal legislatures to constitutional amendments. It is usually assumed that these rules are not only normatively unproblematic but necessary to achieve the goals of institutional stability, consensus, and minority protections. In this book, Melissa Schwartzberg challenges the logic underlying the use of supermajority rule as an alternative to majority decision making. She traces the hidden history of supermajority decision making, which originally emerged as an alternative to unanimous rule, and highlights the tensions in the contemporary use of supermajority rules as an alternative to majority rule. Although supermajority rules ostensibly aim to reduce the purported risks associated with majority decision making, they do so at the cost of introducing new liabilities associated with the biased judgments they generate and secure.

Electoral systems in comparative perspective : their impact on women and minorities
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ISBN: 0313286337 9780313286339 Year: 1994 Volume: 338 Publisher: Westport, Conn.: Greenwood,

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Deliberative politics in action : analyzing parliamentary discourse
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ISBN: 9780511491153 9780521828710 9780521535649 0511080603 9780511080609 0511491158 9780511079849 0511079842 9786610421664 6610421668 0521828716 0521535646 110713854X 1280421665 051117067X 0511206631 0511297823 9781280421662 9780511206634 9780511297823 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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'Deliberative politics' refers to the role of conversation and arguments in politics. Until recently discussion of deliberative politics took place almost exclusively among political philosophers, but many questions raised in this philosophical discussion cry out for empirical investigation. This book provides the first extended empirical study of deliberative politics, addressing, in particular, questions of the preconditions and consequences of high level deliberation. Using parliamentary debates in Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States as an empirical base, the authors measure the level of deliberation by constructing a 'Discourse Quality Index'. As deliberative politics moves to the forefront of political theory, this book makes an important contribution to deliberative democracy.


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Representing the people : a survey among members of statewide and sub-state parliaments
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ISBN: 9780199684533 0199684537 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford: Oxford university press,

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Political systems --- Political sociology --- Legislators --- Representative government and representation --- Parlementaires --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Cross-cultural studies --- Cross-cultural studies. --- Etudes transculturelles --- #SBIB:324H42 --- #SBIB:324H50 --- BPB1502 --- Parlement --- Représentation politique --- Démocratie représentative --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Politieke participatie en legitimiteit (referenda, directe democratie, publieke opinie...) --- Politieke vertegenwoordiging --- Representatieve democratie --- Gouvernement représentatif --- repræsentativt demokrati --- predstavnička demokracija --- netiešā demokrātija --- zastupitelská demokracie --- esindusdemokraatia --- претставничка демократија --- democracia representativa --- democrazia rappresentativa --- zastupiteľská demokracia --- predstavniška demokracija --- repräsentative Demokratie --- αντιπροσωπευτική δημοκρατία --- democrație reprezentativă --- representatieve democratie --- demokracja przedstawicielska --- representative democracy --- representativ demokrati --- edustuksellinen demokratia --- demokraci përfaqësuese --- képviseleti demokrácia --- daonlathas ionadaíoch --- представителна демокрация --- atstovaujamoji demokratija --- представничка демократија --- demokrazija rappreżentattiva --- reprezentativna demokracija --- parlamentaarne demokraatia --- demokracja pośrednia --- démocratie indirecte --- democrazia indiretta --- parlamentaarinen demokratia --- parlamentinė demokratija --- démocratie parlementaire --- индиректна демократија --- parlamentáris demokrácia --- posredna demokracija --- έμμεση δημοκρατία --- democracia parlamentar --- demokracja parlamentarna --- democracia parlamentaria --- democrazia parlamentare --- parlamentarna demokracija --- parlementarisk demokrati --- democracia indireta --- indirekt demokrati --- parlementaire democratie --- indirekte Demokratie --- parlamentāra demokrātija --- parlamentarische Demokratie --- репрезентативна демократија --- democrație indirectă --- посредна демократија --- парламентарна демокрация --- indirect democracy --- közvetett demokrácia --- democrație parlamentară --- demokrazija parlamentari --- mittelbare Demokratie --- democracia indirecta --- parlamentarisk demokrati --- indirecte democratie --- demokraci parlamentare --- κοινοβουλευτική δημοκρατία --- netiesioginė demokratija --- parlamentná demokracia --- välillinen demokratia --- indirekte demokrati --- parlamentní demokracie --- demokrazija indiretta --- парламентарна демократија --- nepriama demokracia --- demokraci e tërthortë --- nepřímá demokracie --- parliamentary democracy --- непряка демокрация --- reprezentacja polityczna --- politikai képviselet --- politisk representation --- poliitiline esindus --- politiskā pārstāvība --- reprezentare politică --- politinis atstovavimas --- politisk repræsentation --- politično predstavništvo --- political representation --- πολιτική εκπροσώπηση --- representación política --- политичко заступање --- политичка застапеност --- politická reprezentace --- përfaqësim politik --- politieke vertegenwoordiging --- politická reprezentácia --- politische Vertretung --- rappreżentanza politika --- representação política --- poliittinen edustus --- rappresentanza politica --- политическо представяне --- političko zastupanje --- politické zastoupení --- parlaments --- Parlament --- Parlamento --- parlament --- parliament --- kansanedustuslaitos --- κοινοβούλιο --- assembleia --- парламент --- parlement --- parlamentas --- parlamento --- rigsdag --- собрание --- zastupitelský sbor --- Országgyűlés --- ionadaíocht pholaitiúil --- parlaimint --- Representative government and representation - Cross-cultural studies --- Démocratie représentative --- Représentation politique

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