Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth-Century West

by Dennis Pilon

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442613505
• ISBN13: 9781442613508
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"