9780521536714

Electoral Engineering

Format: Paperback

ISBN13: 9780521536714

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From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in ?electoral engineering'. Reformers have sought to achieve either greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying the normative debates are important claims about the impact and consequences of electoral reform for political representation and voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties, politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of human behavior.

ISBN-13

9780521536714

ISBN-10

0521536715

Weight

1.12 Pounds

Dimensions

5.98 x 0.98 x 9.02 In

List Price

$38.99

Edition

1st Edition

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

390 pages

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published On

2004-02-09



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