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Title: Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction by David M. Farrell ISBN: 0-333-80162-8 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan Pub. Date: 01 February, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the best on the subject
Comment: I recently received this book and read it quite thoroughly. I was very much impressed. Most books on the subject are extremely expensive or unobtainable. And when I saw the book I was surprised by its slimness. But Farrell manages to cover the topic with surprising completeness, describing all the most important systems, giving illustrations of ballots, explanations of the counting procedure in complex systems, and generally doing a complete job.
While I have also recently read Douglas Amy's "Real Choices, New Voices," and was favorably impressed by the explanations in Amy's book, Amy's goal was to sell one particular class of voting system: proportional representation. Therefore Amy minimizes the disadvantages of PR and emphasizes its advantages. While Farrell has his favorite system (and it is one of Amy's preferred systems, as well as one I like), he only mentions it near the very end; Farrell's book is much more impartial and leaves it to the reader to evaluate the various electoral systems, an approach that I prefer.
I very much recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent overview
Comment: This is the best recent overview of comparative election systems accessible to a general readership. It contains information and comparisons that are very hard to come by elsewhere in the political science literature.
It's a good "first stop" for anyone needing an analytical overview of the election systems of the democratic world.
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Title: Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies 1945-1990 (Comparative European Politics) by Arend Lijphart ISBN: 0198280548 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart ISBN: 0300078935 Publisher: Yale University Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Political Parties and Democracy (Journal of Democracy Book) by Larry Diamond, Richard Gunther ISBN: 0801868637 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics by Matthew Soberg Shugart, John M. Carey ISBN: 0521429900 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral System (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) by Gary W. Cox ISBN: 0521585279 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1997 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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