From Kosovo to Kabul, the last decade witnessed growing interest in
?electoral engineering?. Reformers have sought to achieve either
greater government accountability through majoritarian arrangements or
wider parliamentary diversity through proportional formula. Underlying
the normative debates are important claims about the impact and
consequences of electoral reform for political representation and
voting behavior. The study compares and evaluates two broad schools of
thought, each offering contracting expectations. One popular approach
claims that formal rules define electoral incentives facing parties,
politicians and citizens. By changing these rules, rational choice
institutionalism claims that we have the capacity to shape political
behavior. Alternative cultural modernization theories differ in their
emphasis on the primary motors driving human behavior, their
expectations about the pace of change, and also their assumptions
about the ability of formal institutional rules to alter, rather than
adapt to, deeply embedded and habitual social norms and patterns of
human behavior.
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ISBN
9780511189364
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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