Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice engineering electoral dominance /
"Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies...
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| التنسيق: | الكتروني كتاب الكتروني |
| اللغة: | الإنجليزية |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2013.
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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| الملخص: | "Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of suffrage expansion among early democratizers, she shows that the electoral systems used in advanced democracies today were initially devised as exclusionary safeguards to protect pre-democratic elites from the impact of democratization and, particularly, the existential threat posed by working class mobilization"-- |
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| وصف مادي: | xii, 228 p. : ill. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |