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Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context : Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond /

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Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context : Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond /

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The Many Faces of Strategic Voting : Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World /

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The Many Faces of Strategic Voting : Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World /

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The Taiwan Voter /

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The Taiwan Voter /

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Contending political paradigms in Africa : rationality and the politics of democratization in Kenya and Zambia / by Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala

Table of Contents: “…Emergence of authoritarianism -- The forces of democratization -- The centrality of civil society -- The role of ethnicity -- The primacy of electoral system design -- Rational politics and democratization -- Prospects democratic consolidation.…”
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Contending political paradigms in Africa : rationality and the politics of democratization in Kenya and Zambia / by Nasong'o, Shadrack Wanjala

Table of Contents: “…Emergence of authoritarianism -- The forces of democratization -- The centrality of civil society -- The role of ethnicity -- The primacy of electoral system design -- Rational politics and democratization -- Prospects democratic consolidation.…”
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Ten thousand democracies politics and public opinion in America's school districts / by Berkman, Michael B., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Policy responsiveness in American school districts -- Financing public education -- Public opinion and Americans' commitment to educational spending -- Direct democracy, indirect democracy, and policy responsiveness -- Voting rights, electoral systems, and policy responsiveness -- Teacher's unions in state and local politics -- The gray peril reconsidered -- The democratic control of American school boards.…”
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Ten thousand democracies politics and public opinion in America's school districts / by Berkman, Michael B., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Policy responsiveness in American school districts -- Financing public education -- Public opinion and Americans' commitment to educational spending -- Direct democracy, indirect democracy, and policy responsiveness -- Voting rights, electoral systems, and policy responsiveness -- Teacher's unions in state and local politics -- The gray peril reconsidered -- The democratic control of American school boards.…”
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Raiding Saint Peter empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) / by Rollo-Koster, Joëlle

Table of Contents: “…The empty see -- Empty see governance and the papal electoral system -- The liturgy of the empty see -- Looting, charity, and liturgy -- The empty see as liminal phenomenon -- Looting the empty see : the early chronology -- Introducing spolia: the connection with the ancient -- Early spoils : historiography -- Evidence -- Right of spoil -- Looting the empty see : the Great Western Schism (1378) -- Rome 1378 : quick historiography -- Rome 1378 : background -- Rome 1378 : "Romanum volumus papam vel omnes moriemini!" …”
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Raiding Saint Peter empty sees, violence, and the initiation of the Great Western Schism (1378) / by Rollo-Koster, Joëlle

Table of Contents: “…The empty see -- Empty see governance and the papal electoral system -- The liturgy of the empty see -- Looting, charity, and liturgy -- The empty see as liminal phenomenon -- Looting the empty see : the early chronology -- Introducing spolia: the connection with the ancient -- Early spoils : historiography -- Evidence -- Right of spoil -- Looting the empty see : the Great Western Schism (1378) -- Rome 1378 : quick historiography -- Rome 1378 : background -- Rome 1378 : "Romanum volumus papam vel omnes moriemini!" …”
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Uniting America restoring the vital center to American democracy /

Table of Contents: “…Galston -- The fair society / Amitai Etzioni -- Toward a sustainable environmentalism / Mark Sagoff -- Is reform of America's electoral system possible? / Thomas E. Mann.…”
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Uniting America restoring the vital center to American democracy /

Table of Contents: “…Galston -- The fair society / Amitai Etzioni -- Toward a sustainable environmentalism / Mark Sagoff -- Is reform of America's electoral system possible? / Thomas E. Mann.…”
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