Elections as instruments of democracy
Subtitle: majoritarian and proportional visions
By: G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
Publisher: Yale Univeristy Press; Yale University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
Subjects: Elections; Democracy; Representative government and representation; Majorities; Proportional representation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-292) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Elections as instruments of democracy; title: Constitutional designs as visions of majoritarian or proportional democracy; title: Accountability: conditions for citizen control; title: Conditions for mandates: identifiability and majority; title: A vision of dispersed political power: authorized representation in policy making; title: Testing the vision: responsiveness in selecting governments and policymakers; title: Citizen preferences and party positions; title: The majoritarian policy vision: decisive elections, governments, and the median citizen; title: The proportional influence vision: representing the median citizen through a multistage process; title: Overview of the elections as instruments of democracy.