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Constitution And Address Of The American Proportional Representation League
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Book Synopsis Parliament the Mirror of the Nation by : Gregory Conti
Download or read book Parliament the Mirror of the Nation written by Gregory Conti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?
Book Synopsis American Proportional Representation League Leaflet by :
Download or read book American Proportional Representation League Leaflet written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Real Choices/new Voices by : Douglas J. Amy
Download or read book Real Choices/new Voices written by Douglas J. Amy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular to our winner-take-all approach to electing officials. Douglas Amy demonstrates that switching to proportional representation elections--the voting system used in most other Western democracies, by which officials are elected in large, multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties--would enliven democratic political debate, increase voter choice and voter turnout, ensure fair representation for third parties and minorities, eliminate wasted votes and "spoliers," and ultimately produce policies that better reflect the public will. Looking beyond new voting machines and other quick fixes for our electoral predicament, this new edition of Real Choices/New Voices offers a timely and imaginative way out of the frustrations of our current system of choosing leaders.
Book Synopsis Democracy Or Anarchy? by : Ferdinand Aloys Hermens
Download or read book Democracy Or Anarchy? written by Ferdinand Aloys Hermens and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Equity Series by : Charles Fremont Taylor
Download or read book Equity Series written by Charles Fremont Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 786 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Political Reform by the Representation of Minorities by : Matthias Nace Forney
Download or read book Political Reform by the Representation of Minorities written by Matthias Nace Forney and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equity Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Equity written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Public Documents of Massachusetts by : Massachusetts
Download or read book Public Documents of Massachusetts written by Massachusetts and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? by : Alexander Keyssar
Download or read book Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College? written by Alexander Keyssar and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New Statesman Book of the Year “America’s greatest historian of democracy now offers an extraordinary history of the most bizarre aspect of our representative democracy—the electoral college...A brilliant contribution to a critical current debate.” —Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don’t Represent Us Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through an arcane institution that permits the loser of the popular vote to become president and narrows campaigns to swing states. Congress has tried on many occasions to alter or scuttle the Electoral College, and in this master class in American political history, a renowned Harvard professor explains its confounding persistence. After tracing the tangled origins of the Electoral College back to the Constitutional Convention, Alexander Keyssar outlines the constant stream of efforts since then to abolish or reform it. Why have they all failed? The complexity of the design and partisan one-upmanship have a lot to do with it, as do the difficulty of passing constitutional amendments and the South’s long history of restrictive voting laws. By revealing the reasons for past failures and showing how close we’ve come to abolishing the Electoral College, Keyssar offers encouragement to those hoping for change. “Conclusively demonstrates the absurdity of preserving an institution that has been so contentious throughout U.S. history and has not infrequently produced results that defied the popular will.” —Michael Kazin, The Nation “Rigorous and highly readable...shows how the electoral college has endured despite being reviled by statesmen from James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson to Edward Kennedy, Bob Dole, and Gerald Ford.” —Lawrence Douglas, Times Literary Supplement
Book Synopsis The American Magazine of Civics by :
Download or read book The American Magazine of Civics written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The American Magazine of Civics by : Andrew J. Palm
Download or read book The American Magazine of Civics written by Andrew J. Palm and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Convention Proceedings by : National Women's Trade Union League of America
Download or read book Convention Proceedings written by National Women's Trade Union League of America and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Political Ideas, 1865-1917 by : Charles Merriam
Download or read book American Political Ideas, 1865-1917 written by Charles Merriam and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Merriam is scarcely read today, and even among scholars he is probably more often cited than read seriously. His ambiguous position in the study of American democracy is unfortunate. Between the two world wars, Merriman was the doyen of American political science. This was a period when the most formative characteristics of academic social sciences were taking shape, characteristics that were to dominate the remainder of the century. During this period, "science" and "progress" became virtually synonymous in the social sciences. Between the two world wars, the liberal progressive critique of America's founders, a critique that included scholars such as Woodrow Wilson, Charles Beard, and others, became the orthodoxy of a new political science. The heart of that critique, insofar as it turned on methodological questions of how to study American government, was very much the work of Charles Merriam. Anyone who seeks to understand why that period was so pivotal in the interpretation of American democracy must necessarily study Charles Merriam and his influence. His work represents the first comprehensive effort by a scholar in the liberal-progressive tradition to survey the entirety of American political thought. To read Merriam's political essays and writings is to read a political theory that the behavioral tradition would come to label as "normative." His essays included insightful interpretations of Hobbes and Rousseau in European political philosophy as well as an earlier work tracing American political thought from the founding to the Civil War. This is a fundamental work for scholars working in the liberal-progressive tradition.
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Book Synopsis Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America by : Peter H. Argersinger
Download or read book Representation and Inequality in Late Nineteenth-Century America written by Peter H. Argersinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-29 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that apportionment, although long overlooked by scholars, dominated state politics in late nineteenth-century America, setting the boundaries not only for legislative districts but for the nature of representative democracy. The book examines the fierce struggles over apportionment in the Midwest, where a distinctive constitutional and electoral context shaped their course with momentous consequences. As the major parties alternated in effectively disenfranchising their opponents through gerrymanders, growing tensions challenged established patterns of political behaviour and precipitated intense and even dangerous disputes. Unprecedented judicial intervention overturned gerrymanders in stunning decisions that electrified the public but intensified rather than resolved political conflict and uncertainty. Ultimately, America's political ideal of representative democracy was frustrated by its own political institutions, including the courts, because their decisions against gerrymandering in the 1890s helped parties and legislatures entrench the practice as a basic and profoundly undemocratic feature of American politics in the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis A Half Century of Municipal Reform by : Frank Mann Stewart
Download or read book A Half Century of Municipal Reform written by Frank Mann Stewart and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1950.
