Benjamin Reilly

Democracy in Divided Societies

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Produktbeschreibung

Reilly analyses the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780521797306
• ISBN-10: 0521797306
• Artikelnr.: 26959488

Autorenporträt

Benjamin Reilly is an environmental historian working at Carnegie Mellon University's branch campus in Qatar. His publications have included French Revolutionary ideological discourse, information on lactose tolerance amongst Arabian Bedouins, and Europe's long engagement with the Eternal City of Rome. He lives in Doha, Qatar.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: democracy in divided societies
1. The historical development of preferential voting
2. The historical development of preferential voting
3. Centripetal incentives and political engineering in Australia
4. The rise and fall of centripetalism in Papua New Guinea
5. Electoral engineering and conflict management in divided societies: (i) Fiji and Sri Lanka compared
6. Electoral engineering and conflict management in divided societies: (ii)Northern Ireland, Estonia and beyond
7. Technical variations and the theory of preference voting
Conclusion: assessing the evidence.