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Author:   Larry Diamond (Director, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University) ,  Marc F. Plattner (Editor, National Endowment for Democracy)
Publisher:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Imprint:   Johns Hopkins University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.499kg
ISBN:  

9780801884740

ISBN 10:   0801884748
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   27 October 2006
Recommended Age:   From 13
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction I. Electorial Systems and Institutional Design 1. A Primer for Decision Makers 2. A Gobal Snapshot 3. Dealing with Divided Societies 4. The Case for Power Sharing 5. The Impact of Federalism II. Is Proportional Representation Best? 6. Constitutional Choices for New Democracies 7. The Problem with PR 8. PR and Democratic Statecraft 9. Double-Checking the Evidence 10. The Primary of the Particular III. Country and Regional Experiences 11. Constitutional Engineering in Southern Africa 12. Comment: Elections in Agrarian Societies 13. Rejoinder: The Case for Proportionality 14. Electoral Reform and Stability in Uruguary 15. Devaluing the Vote in Latin America 16. Why Direct Election Failed in Israel 17. The Politics of Reform in Japan and Taiwan 18. The Curious Case of Afghanistan 19. Iraq's Year of Voting Dangerously Index

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Very useful for pedagogical purposes... Recommended. General readers and undergraduates. -- Choice

An accessible and comprehensive collection... usefully grounds the key theoretical arguments with empirical evidence. -- Toby James Political Studies Review 2007 Very useful for pedagogical purposes... Recommended. General readers and undergraduates. Choice 2007

<p>An accessible and comprehensive collection... usefully grounds the key theoretical arguments with empirical evidence.--Toby James Political Studies Review (01/01/0001)

Author Information

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. They serve as codirectors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and coeditors of the Journal of Democracy, as well as of other collections of essays available from Johns Hopkins, including The Global Divergence of Democracies, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, and Democracy after Communism.

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