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Serpents in the sand : essays on the nonlinear nature of politics and human destiny
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ISBN: 0472106430 Year: 1995 Publisher: Ann Arbor University of Michigan Press


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Une théorie économique de la démocratie
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ISBN: 9782800415086 2800415088 Year: 2013 Volume: 27 Publisher: Bruxelles : Editions de l'Université de Bruxelles,

Advances in the spatial theory of voting
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ISBN: 0521352843 0521084539 0511896603 9780521352840 9780521084536 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This volume brings together eight original essays selected to provide an overview of the developments in the spatial theory of voting. The spatial theory of self-interest and explores the consequences of this assumption for elite behaviour and for the choices voters make in representative and direct democracies. The book summarizes work in eight major areas: elections with possible entry by new candidates who have policy preferences, experimental testing of spatial models of committees and elections, elections with imperfect information about voting intentions, voting on alternatives that are linked to future decisions, elections with candidates who have policy preferences, experimental testing of spatial manoeuvres designed to alter voting outcomes, elections with experimental testing of spatial models of committees and elections, elections with imperfect information about voting intentions, voting on alternatives that are linked to future decisions, elections with more than two candidates under different election rules, and bureaucratic efforts to manipulate referendum voting. Recognized scholars in these areas summarize the major results of their own and others' work, providing self-contained discussions that will apprise readers of important recent advances.

Electoral systems : a theoretical and comparative introduction
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ISBN: 0415012058 9780415012058 Year: 1991 Volume: vol *2 Publisher: London New York Routledge

Electoral engineering : voting rules and political behavior
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ISBN: 0521829771 0521536715 0511187521 9780511187520 9780521536714 9780521829779 0511184859 9780511184857 0511185685 9780511185687 9780511790980 0511790988 1280449314 9781280449314 0511186592 9780511186592 9786610449316 6610449317 1107147999 9781107147997 0511313616 9780511313615 Year: 2004 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.

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International relations. Foreign policy --- Affiliation aux partis politiques --- Comparative government --- Comparative political systems --- Comparative politics --- Elections --- Gouvernement comparé --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Government [Comparative ] --- Institutions politiques -- Études comparatives --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Opérations de vote --- Parlementarisme --- Parliamentary government --- Partis politiques [Affiliation aux ] --- Party affiliation --- Political affiliation --- Political representation --- Political systems [Comparative ] --- Politieke partijen [Toetreding tot de ] --- Politique comparée --- Representation --- Representative government and representation --- Régimes politiques --- Scrutin --- Secret de vote --- Self-government --- Stemmen (Politiek) --- Sécurité de vote --- Toetreding tot de politieke partijen --- Vergelijkend bestuur --- Verkiezingen --- Volksvertegenwoordiging --- Vote --- Vote secret --- Votes --- Voting --- Élections--Modalités --- Elections. --- Voting. --- Party affiliation. --- Representative government and representation. --- Comparative government. --- Partis politiques --- Adhésion --- 342.8 --- #SBIB:041.IO --- #SBIB:324H42 --- Government, Comparative --- Political systems, Comparative --- Political science --- Constitutional history --- Constitutional law --- Democracy --- Republics --- Suffrage --- Affiliation, Party --- Political parties --- Polls --- Politics, Practical --- Social choice --- Electoral politics --- Franchise --- Plebiscite --- Political campaigns --- Kiesrecht --(algemeen) --- Politieke structuren: verkiezingen --- Membership --- 342.8 Kiesrecht --(algemeen) --- Adhérents d'un parti --- Adhésion politique --- Adhésion à un parti --- Affiliation [Party ] --- Affiliation à un parti --- Appartenance à un parti --- Membres d'un parti --- Partis politiques -- Adhésion --- Partis politiques -- Membres --- Political parties -- Membership --- Gouvernement représentatif --- Institutions politiques comparées --- Adhésion --- Balloting --- Social Sciences --- Political Science

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