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Elections as instruments of democracy : majoritarian and proportional visions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Powell, G. Bingham
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New Haven : Yale University Press, c2000.
Subjects:	Elections. Democracy. Representative government and representation. Majorities. Proportional representation.
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Table of Contents:

Elections as instruments of democracy
Constitutional designs as visions of majoritarian or proportional democracy
Accountability: conditions for citizen control
Conditions for mandates: identifiability and majority
A vision of dispersed political power: authorized representation in policy making
Testing the vision: responsiveness in selecting governments and policymakers
Citizen preferences and party positions
The majoritarian policy vision: decisive elections, governments, and the median citizen
The proportional influence vision: representing the median citizen through a multistage process
Overview of the elections as instruments of democracy.

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