Wrestling with Democracy
eBook - PDF

Wrestling with Democracy

Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West

  1. 408 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Wrestling with Democracy

Voting Systems as Politics in the 20th Century West

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. 1. Introduction
  4. 2. Contextualizing Democracy
  5. 3. Prologue to the Democratic Era
  6. 4. Facing the Democratic Challenge, 1900–1918
  7. 5. Struggling with Democracy, 1919–1939
  8. 6. The Cold War Democratic Compromise, 1940–1969
  9. 7. The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment, 1970–2000
  10. 8. Conclusion
  11. Notes
  12. Select Bibliography
  13. Author Index
  14. Subject Index