Electoral laws and their political consequences - Grofman, Bernard; Lijphart, Arend (New York, NY Agathon Press, 1986)
The effect of election type on political competition -- Duverger's law revisited/ William H. Riker -- The infulence of electoral systems: faulty laws or faulty method?/ Giovanni Sartori -- Duverger's law: forty years later/ Maurice Duverger -- Intraparty preference voting/ Richard S. Katz -- Thinking about the length and renewewability of electoral terms/ William R. Keech -- Evaluating the impact of electoral laws: proportional and Semiproportional systems case studies -- Proportionality by non-PR methods: ethnic representation in Belgium, Cyprus,. Lebanon, New Zealand, west Germany and Zimbabawe/ Arend Lijphart -- Australian experience with majority-preferential and qouta-preferential systems/ Jack F.H. Wright -- The rise, decline and resurrection of proportional representation in local governments in the United Sates/ Leon Weaver -- The limited vote and the single nontransferable vote: lessons from the Japanese and Spanish examples/ Arend Lijphart, Rafael Lopez Pintor and Yasunori Sone -- Degrees of proportional representation formulas/ Arend Lijphart -- Evaulating the impact of electoral laws: plurality systems -- The geography of representation: a review of recent findings/ Peter J. Taylor, Graham gudgin, and R.J. Johnston -- Social choice and Pluralitylike electoral systems/ Peter C. Fishburn -- The effect of at-large versus district elections on racial representation in U.S. municipalities/ Richard L. Engstorm and Michael D. McDonald -- The nonpartisan ballot in the United States/ Carol A. Cassel -- Ballot format in plurality partisan elections/ Howard A. Scarrow -- Cross-endorsement and cross-filing in plurality partisan elections/ Howard A. Scarrow -- Redistricting -- Whatever happened to the reapportionment revolution in the United States?/ Gordon E. Baker -- Constituency redistribution in Britain: recent issues/ R.J. Johnston -- Districting choices under the signle-transferable vote/ Peter Mair.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-325) and indexes.
Keywords: Elections; Voting; Election law; Comparative government