Dennis Pilon

Wrestling with Democracy

Voting Systems as Politics in the Twentieth-Century West

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 408
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9781442613508
• ISBN-10: 1442613505
• Artikelnr.: 37055612

Autorenporträt

Dennis Pilon is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at York University.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Contextualizing Democracy
Chapter 3: Prologue to the Democratic Era
Chapter 4: Facing the Democratic Challenge 1900-1918
Chapter 5: Struggling with Democracy 1919-39
Chapter 6: The Cold War Democratic Compromise 1940-1969
Chapter 7: The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment 1970-2000
Chapter 8: Conclusion