Electoral Engineering by Pippa Norris

Electoral Engineering by Pippa Norris

From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.

'This is a welcome contribution to the debate on how electoral systems shape political strategiesIt should be read by all students of electoral systems, not only because it is well researched and well written, but also because it brings attention to the lesser known systems of preferential voting…'. Journal of Commonwealth and Comparative Politics
'… this is a book rich in its insights and detailed research findings'. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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ISBN 13	9780521536714
ISBN 10	0521536715
Titel	Electoral Engineering
Autor	Pippa Norris
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Cambridge University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2004-02-09
Seitenanzahl	390
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