Electoral Reform and Minority Representation: Local Experiments with Alternative Elections
- ISBN-10
- 0814209173
- ISBN-13
- 9780814209172
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 158
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- Ohio State University Press
- Authors
- Todd Donovan, Shaun Bowler, David Brockington
Description
Doubts about citizens ' ability to deal with such complexity have been one of the most common critiques of the class of ordinal electoral systems as a whole1 as well as of CV specifically ( Dunn and Gove 1972 ; Dunn 1972 ; Everson et al ...
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