Understanding Electoral Reform

Reuven Y Hazan, Monique Leijenaar

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Abstract

The field of elections and electoral systems, and particularly electoral reform, has exhibited tremendous growth and cross-national appeal over the last two decades. However, beyond an increased knowledge of voting rules and their consequences for political representation, little attention has been devoted to the question of why electoral systems have recently undergone substantial change in several liberal democracies.This book addresses several new approaches to electoral reform. First, the scope of the study of electoral reform has been expanded. Second, contrary to previous studi
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherRoutledge
Number of pages233
Volume34
ISBN (Electronic)0415688892, 1315872498, 1317978927, 9780415688895
StatePublished - 2012

Publication series

NameWest European politics
ISSN (Print)0140-2382

Bibliographical note

Originally published as a special issue of the journal West European politics, v.34, issue3.

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