Wrestling with democracy

By Dennis Pilon

Subjects: Politics and government, Political parties, europe, Europe, politics and government, Democracy, Voting, Elections, History, Political parties

Description: 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."--Publisher's description.