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Elections, electoral systems and volatile voters

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Elections, electoral systems and volatile voters/ Gianfranco Baldiniand Adriano Pappalardo.
Author:	Baldini, Gianfranco.
other author:	Pappalardo, Adriano,
Published:	Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	xiii, 229 p. ;23 cm.;
Subject:	Elections. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230584389

Elections, electoral systems and volatile voters
Baldini, Gianfranco.

Elections, electoral systems and volatile voters[electronic resource] /Gianfranco Baldiniand Adriano Pappalardo. - Basingstoke [England] ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xiii, 229 p. ;23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-217) and index.

What democratic elections are, and what they are not -- Electoral systems in contemporary advanced democracies: basic principles and their mechanics -- Majoritarian systems -- Proportional systems -- Mixed member systems -- Electoral rules: how effective and why -- The French 2RS:suited for comparative research? -- Redesigning cases and indicators -- From theory to evidence: updating and retesting Lijphart -- Systemic consequences, past and future.

Elections and parties are obvious cornerstones of democratic regimes. Though intensively researched and lively debated through the post-warliterature, these topics deserve continuous attention to keep up with an accelerating rate of change of both collective actors, legal rules, and their socio-political environment. The book gives a full account ofpast experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. A special focus is devoted to volatility, i.e., the growing instability of voting choices. This - is argued - is theindicator of a wholesale crisis of the electors-parties trust relationship and the underlying cause of an unprecedented party fragmentation and a decreasing effectiveness of electoral rules. The analysis, descriptive, interpretative, and explanatory, is basedon an original 1945-2007 comparative data set including all relevant political and institutional variables.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230584389

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230584389doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

232539
Elections.
Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: JF1001 / .B34 2009eb

Dewey Class. No.: 324.6

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