TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pilon,Dennis
TI  - Wrestling with democracy: voting systems as politics in the twentieth-century West 
T2  - Studies in comparative political economy and public policy
SN  - 9781442662735
AV  - JC421 .W747 2013
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Toronto [Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Western countries
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Voting
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; Chapter 1: Introduction --; Chapter 2: Contextualizing Democracy --; Chapter 3: Prologue to the Democratic Era --; Chapter 4: Facing the Democratic Challenge 1900-1918 --; Chapter 5: Struggling with Democracy 1919-39 --; Chapter 6: The Cold War Democratic Compromise 1940-1969 --; Chapter 7: The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment 1970-2000; 2; b
N2  - "Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, Wrestling with Democracy examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century; In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change."--pub. desc
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