Wrestling with Democracy Voting Systems As Politics in the 20th Century West 1st Edition by Dennis Pilon ISBN 1442613505 9781442613508
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ISBN 10: 1442613505
ISBN 13: 9781442613508
Author: Dennis Pilon
Though sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. 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.
In this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.
Table of contents:
1 Introduction
Introduction
Why Study Voting System Change?
Sketching the Research Project
What’s Been Done: A Review of the Literature
What Will Be Done Differently Here: The Framework
Doing Social Science Differently
Applying a Comparative Historical Method
Critical Institutionalism
The Plan of the Book
2 Contextualizing Democracy
Introduction
Political Science and Defining Democracy
From Definition to Context: Historical Struggles over Democracy
1900 to the First World War
The Interwar Period
The Cold War
The Neoliberal Era
Voting System Reform and Democracy: Making the Links
Conclusion
3 Prologue to the Democratic Era
Introduction
Voting System Reform in the Nineteenth Century
The Rise of a New Class
The Link between Class Politics and Voting System Reform: Sweden, Germany, and Belgium
Conclusion
4 Facing the Democratic Challenge, 1900–1918
Introduction
Conservative Resistance to Democracy in Europe, 1900–1918
Germany
Finland
Sweden
Negotiating the Limits of Democracy in Europe, 1900–1918
Switzerland and Norway
France
Denmark
The Netherlands
Anglo-American Voting System Reform, 1900–1918
United Kingdom
Australia
New Zealand
Canada and the United States
Conclusion
5 Struggling with Democracy, 1919–1939
Introduction
The Sudden Rise of Proportional Representation, 1918–1921
Germany
The Neutral Countries in Europe
Italy and France
Anglo-American Countries
Conservative Resurgence and the Slow Decline of PR, 1922–1939
Anglo-American Countries
Continental Europe
Conclusion
6 The Cold War Democratic Compromise, 1940–1969
Introduction
Italy
France
Germany
Conclusion
7 The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment, 1970–2000
Introduction
Ireland, the Netherlands, and Canada
France
Voting System Reform in the 1990s
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