The Limits of Electoral Reform
- ISBN-10
- 0199695407
- ISBN-13
- 9780199695409
- Category
- Political Science
- Pages
- 164
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-03-28
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Authors
- Todd Donovan, Shaun Bowler
Description
The Limits of Electoral Reform examines a variety of reforms, including campaign finance, direct democracy, legislative term limits, and changes to the electoral system itself. This study finds electoral reforms have limited, and in many cases, no effects. The findings here suggest there are hard limits to effects of electoral reform.
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