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|aBaldini, Gianfranco.
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|aElections, electoral systems and volatile voters|h[electronic resource] /|cGianfranco Baldiniand Adriano Pappalardo.
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|aBasingstoke [England] ;|aNew York :|bPalgrave Macmillan,|c2009.
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|aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 183-217) and index.
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|aWhat democratic elections are, and what they are not -- Electoral systems in contemporary advanced democracies: basic principles and their mechanics -- Majoritarian systems -- Proportional systems -- Mixed member systems -- Electoral rules: how effective and why -- The French 2RS:suited for comparative research? -- Redesigning cases and indicators -- From theory to evidence: updating and retesting Lijphart -- Systemic consequences, past and future.
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|aElections and parties are obvious cornerstones of democratic regimes. Though intensively researched and lively debated through the post-warliterature, these topics deserve continuous attention to keep up with an accelerating rate of change of both collective actors, legal rules, and their socio-political environment. The book gives a full account ofpast experience, present structures and processes, and probable developments, of the voters- party-electoral systems nexus in twenty-one advanced Western democracies. A special focus is devoted to volatility, i.e., the growing instability of voting choices. This - is argued - is theindicator of a wholesale crisis of the electors-parties trust relationship and the underlying cause of an unprecedented party fragmentation and a decreasing effectiveness of electoral rules. The analysis, descriptive, interpretative, and explanatory, is basedon an original 1945-2007 comparative data set including all relevant political and institutional variables.
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|aElectronic reproduction.|bBasingstoke, England :|cPalgrave Macmillan,|d2009.|nMode of access:World Wide Web.|nSystem requirements: Web browser.|nTitle from title screen (viewed on Mar. 3, 2009).|nAccess may berestricted to users at subscribing institutions.
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|aComparative government.
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|aElections.
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|aPappalardo, Adriano,|d1948-
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