TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pilon,Dennis
TI  - Wrestling with Democracy: Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West 
SN  - 9781442613508
AV  - JC421 P55 2013
U1  - 909 22/ger
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - Toronto : 
PB  - University of Toronto Press, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Western countries
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Political parties
KW  - Voting
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781442662735
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781442662735/original
ER  -