Real Choices/new Voices
Subtitle: How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780231500753
Subjects: Proportional representation; Elections, united states; United states, politics and government, 20th century
Description: There is a growing realization that many of the problems afflicting American elections can be traced to the electoral system itself, in particular to our winner-take-all approach to electing officials. Douglas Amy demonstrates that switching to proportional representation elections -- the voting system used in most other Western democracies, by which officials are elected in large, multimember districts according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties -- would enliven democratic political debate, increase voter choice and voter turnout, ensure fair representation for third.