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Real choices/new voices : how proportional representation elections could revitalize American democracy

Title
Real choices/new voices : how proportional representation elections could revitalize American democracy / Douglas J. Amy.
Author
Amy, Douglas J.
Publication
New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.

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Description
xiii, 329 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-303) and index.
Contents
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 -- 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.
Call Number
JFE 02-21216
ISBN
  • 0231125488 (cl. : alk. paper)
  • 0231125496 (paper : alk. paper)
LCCN
2002067425
OCLC
49672395
Author
Amy, Douglas J.
Title
Real choices/new voices : how proportional representation elections could revitalize American democracy / Douglas J. Amy.
Imprint
New York : Columbia University Press, c2002.
Edition
2nd ed.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-303) and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 02-21216
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