Amel Ahmed brings new historical evidence and a novel theoretical framework to bear on
the study of democratization. Looking at the politics of electoral system choice at the time of …

Political scientists commonly draw on history but often do not read actual historians carefully.
This limited engagement with historians, and with contextual information more generally …

Rules governing the conduct of elections have important consequences for democratic
politics, and much can be learned from studying changes in electoral rules. Instances of …

There were many opinions about why all these voting system reform initiatives failed. Anti-
reform forces declared their efforts were decisive in discrediting the proposed alternative …

It is common for political scientists to regard campaigns and elections as relatively static
events in American politics. Campaigns occur at regular, indeed legally prescribed intervals …

Vi ger en översikt över olika proportionella valmetoder, i Sverige och utomlands, och deras
matematiska egenskaper. Speciellt behandlas en del problem och paradoxer som kan …

There is no single definition for 'preferential voting'or 'preference voting'since the terms are
used for a number of different election systems and groups of such systems. They can be …

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Національний юридичний університет імені Ярослава Мудрого Міністерство освіти і …

This paper investigates when a runoff election is desirable and when a plurality result is
good enough. A runoff election increases the likelihood that the Condorcet winner will be …

The origins of electoral systems in early democracies have received a great deal of attention
in recent years, as scholars seek to explain why at the time of suffrage expansion some …