Wrestling with Democracy

Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West

Nonfiction, History, World History, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, Politics, History & Theory, International
Cover of the book Wrestling with Democracy by Dennis Pilon, University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
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Author: Dennis Pilon ISBN: 9781442662742
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division Publication: June 17, 2013
Imprint: Language: English
Author: Dennis Pilon
ISBN: 9781442662742
Publisher: University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Publication: June 17, 2013
Imprint:
Language: English

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 systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century.

In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.

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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 systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century.

In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.

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