Real Choices / New Voices How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy

Name: Real Choices / New Voices How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy
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ISBN: 9780231125499

ISBN-10: 0231125496

ISBN-13: 9780231125499

Edition: 2nd 2002

Authors: Douglas Amy

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Douglas J. Amy argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic and that the United States should adopt a different electoral system - proportional representation - by which officials are elected in multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties.

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 9/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.90" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.078
Language: English



List of Tables and Illustrations


Preface to Second Edition


Introduction



Fair Representation for All



Solving the Redistricting Problem



Improving Election Campaigns



Toward a Multiparty System



Electing More Women



Fair Representation for Racial and Ethnic Minorities



Encouraging Voter Turnout



PR: A Different and Better Kind of Democracy



Objections to Proportional Representation



Versions of Electoral Reform for the United States



The Political Prospects for PR in the United States


Appendixes



Seat Allocation Formulas in Proportional Representation



Vote Counting and Ballot Transfer in the Single Transferable Vote



The Forgotten History of Proportional Representation in the United States


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Additional Resources on the World Wide Web


Index