Description |
1 online resource (ix, 173 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in public choice |
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Studies in public choice (Springer-Verlag)
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Contents |
Editors' Introduction: The Role of Controlled Experiments in Evaluating Proposed Institutional Reforms -- Election by Majority Judgment: Experimental Evidence -- French Presidential Election: A Field Experiment on the Single Transferable Vote -- Framed-field Experiment on Approval Voting and Evaluation Voting. Some Teachings to Reform the French Presidential Electoral System -- Lessons from In Situ Experiments during French Elections -- Measuring Duvergerian Effects of the French Majority Runoff System with Laboratory Experiments: Duverger's Laws Under the Microscope The Contribution of Laboratory Experiments to the Study of the Psychological Effects of Voting Systems -- French Double Ballot Effects: American Experiments |
Summary |
In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform. Moreover, of the key structural variables in constitutional design, it is the choice of electoral system that is usually the most open to change. There are three distinctive approaches to electoral system research. One, associated largely with economics, involves the study of electoral system effects through the deductive method, using mathematical tools to derive theorems about the properties of voting methods and behaviors. A second |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Print version record |
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Elections -- France -- Congresses
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Presidents -- France -- Election -- Congresses
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Election law -- France -- Congresses
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Sciences sociales.
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Droit.
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Sciences humaines.
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Election law
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Elections
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Presidents -- Election
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France
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Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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Author |
Dolez, Bernard.
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Grofman, Bernard.
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Laurent, Annie, 1949-
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ISBN |
9781441975393 |
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144197539X |
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