Mixed-member electoral systems : the best of both worlds? / edited by Matthew Soberg Shugart and Martin P. Wattenberg.
"This book evaluates why mixed-member systems have recently appealed to many countries with diverse electoral histories, and how well expectations for these systems have been met. Each major country that has adopted a mixed system is given two chapters, one on origins and one on consequences. T...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [UK] ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2003.
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| Series: | Comparative politics (Oxford University Press).
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Oxford Scholarship Online |
| Summary: | "This book evaluates why mixed-member systems have recently appealed to many countries with diverse electoral histories, and how well expectations for these systems have been met. Each major country that has adopted a mixed system is given two chapters, one on origins and one on consequences. The countries examined are Germany, New Zealand, Italy, Israel, Japan, Venezuela, Bolivia, Mexico, Hungary, and Russia. In addition, there are chapters on the prospects for a mixed-member system being adopted in Britain and Canada."--Publisher description. |
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| Item Description: | Description based on print version record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic document (xxiv, 656 p.) : ill. |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 601-633) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0191528978 0191600245 1281989819 9780191528972 9780191600241 9781281989819 |