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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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Details
- 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