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Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) (Volume 0) - Softcover

Book 13 of 81: Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions

Cox, Gary W.

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9780521585279: Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral Systems (Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions) (Volume 0)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0521585279 ISBN 13: 9780521585279
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1997

Synopsis

This book investigates strategic coordination in elections worldwide. Although the classics of electoral studies have dealt with issues of coordination, this is the first book that employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination--including both strategic voting and strategic entry--worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws.

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"Every serious scholar of political systems should read this book....Cox is a master when it comes to explaining ideas generated by a logic-based theory....this book is a very important contribution to our knowledge about electoral systems. It will be the major book in this area for some time to come." Melvin Hinch, American Political Science Review

"...this is a great book, a must for all those interested in the study of elections. Cox powerfully demonstrates the fruitfulness of looking at the impact of electoral systems from the perspective of formal theory, provided this is combined with solid empirical analysis." André Blais, Canadian Journal of Political Science

"This book is a unique contribution to the fields of comparative politics and formal political theory. It offers a model integrating many diverse aspects of electoral competition that together bring into existence systems of national poltical parties. Gary Cox combines social choice theory, public choice theory, spatial theory, and the institutional approach to electoral studies to reach a new level of understanding of political competition in democracies. Gary Cox's new book is not only a theoretical study, but also a useful reference on comparative electoral institutions. ...the suthor also draws attention to such often overlooked institutions as rules of candidate nomination and party registration." Olga Shvetsova, Political Science Quarterly

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1997
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0521585279
ISBN 13 
9780521585279
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
360
Rating
  • 3.98 out of 5 stars
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