Richard Lung

1,2,3, Representation by Enid Lakeman (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The practical invention of modern democratic elections, by Carl Andrae, and also Thomas Hare, is over one and a half centuries old, as is the organised resistance to their implementation. The Andrae system, as it is called in Scandinavia, by now, is really no more than a name. The Hare system, which its author called a Single Transferable Vote (STV), endures, mainly on the fringes of English-speaking countries. And in more or less diluted form.
This is because the electoral system, that gives most power to voters, gives least job security to
political incumbents.
The question is how to enable the public to see thru the booming fog of obscurity and illusion that protects the vested interests of the political class in ineffective elections.
This state careerism has out-matched the unorganised common man.
Some of the best writings on electoral reform have remained unorganised, and therefore less effective in changing public opinion. This editor organised uncollected writings of two of its greatest exponents, John Stuart Mill and H. G. Wells, for popular presentation of the truth about elections.
Even then, with such formidable protagonists, brought to bear directly on the problem of democracy versus incumbency, I remained vaguely dissatisfied.
There was another British writer, who was a world authority on electoral systems. Mill and Wells are wonderful informants but history condemned them to go without that vital ingredient where Lakeman excels: evidence!
Moreover, her exertions were legendary, on spreading the good news about the people power of transferable voting. Hopefully, books of the complete collected writings of Enid Lakeman will be published, without further delay.
Meanwhile, this collection has been permitted, by the Executor of the Enid Lakeman Estate, thru the good offices of former colleagues.

As a foot-note, it is to be hoped that the largely forgotten original research of our brothers in reform, the heroic North American progressives, like Clarence Hoag and George Hallett and their colleagues, will also be liberated in systematically collected and easily accessible form. I have seen more or less century-old resources, languishing behind publishers pay-walls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Richard Lung
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463155561
• Artikelnr.: 72406911

Autorenporträt

My later years acknowledge the decisive benefit of the internet and the web in allowing me the possibility of publication, therefore giving the incentive to learn subjects to write about them.

While, from my youth, I acknowledge the intellectual debt that I owed a social science degree, while coming to radically disagree, even as a student, with its out-look and aims.

Whereas from middle age, I acknowledge how much I owed to the friendship of Dorothy Cowlin, largely the subject of my e-book, Dates and Dorothy. This is the second in a series of five books of my collected verse. Her letters to me, and my comments came out, in: Echoes of a Friend.....

Authors have played a big part in my life.
Years ago, two women independently asked me: Richard, don't you ever read anything but serious books?
But Dorothy was an author who influenced me personally, as well as from the written page. And that makes all the difference.
I was the author of the Democracy Science website since 1999. This combined scientific research with democratic reform. It is now mainly used as an archive. Since 2014, I have written e-books.
I have only become a book author myself, on retiring age, starting at stopping time!
2014, slightly modified 2022.