Book contents
- Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice
- Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: contradictions and ambiguities of democratization
- 2 Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation
- 3 Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR)
- 4 The United States: pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP
- 5 The United Kingdom: safeguarding the Reform Acts with SMP
- 6 France: the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the Third Republic
- 7 Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR
- 8 Conclusions: rethinking democracy’s determinisms
- Appendix The existential threat: electoral viability and ideological radicalism
- Bibliography
- Index
3 - Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2012
- Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice
- Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction: contradictions and ambiguities of democratization
- 2 Strategies of containment: the role of repression and accommodation
- 3 Strategies of competition: the logic of electoral system choice, single member plurality (SMP) vs. proportional representation (PR)
- 4 The United States: pre-industrial democratization and the origins of SMP
- 5 The United Kingdom: safeguarding the Reform Acts with SMP
- 6 France: the tumultuous path of electoral system choice in the Third Republic
- 7 Belgium: minimizing the existential threat with PR
- 8 Conclusions: rethinking democracy’s determinisms
- Appendix The existential threat: electoral viability and ideological radicalism
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System ChoiceEngineering Electoral Dominance, pp. 64 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012