Reflecting All of Us: The Case for Proportional Representation: 1 - Brossura

Richie, Robert

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0807044210 ISBN 13: 9780807044216

Casa editrice: Beacon Press, 1999

Riassunto

A lively dialogue on the power of electoral reform to strengthen our democratic institutions

Scholars, critics, reformers, politicians, and activists have for years asked why Americans are so uninvolved in the political process. Minority underrepresentation, the marginalization of progressive voices, the exclusion of the poor-these and other serious problems appear everywhere, from the pages of national newspapers to MTV.

Robert Richie and Steven Hill offer a powerful solution, one currently in practice in many parts of the world, including places in the U.S.: proportional representation. They demonstrate that unlike the winner-takes-all system, which always leaves the losers completely unrepresented, proportional representation gives all points of view a political voice; it works by giving citizens multiple votes or the right to vote for more than one candidate, or by giving political parties power according to percentages of votes received.

Esteemed thinkers-Cynthia McKinney, John Ferejohn, E. Joshua Rosenkrantz, Gary W. Cox, Daniel Cantor, Ross Mirkarimi, Anthony Thig penn, and Pamela S. Karlan-respond in essays discussing the forms proportional representation could take to operate best in the U.S. Their contributions underscore the concept at the heart of this book: the more people invested in the political process, the more democratic-and reflective of all of us-our system becomes.

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM: A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues-both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.

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Book by Robert Richie Steven Hill Joshua Cohen Joel Rogers

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Beacon Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0807044210
• ISBN 13: 9780807044216
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 120
• Contatto del produttore: Easy Access System Europe; Teemu Konttnen; gpsr.requests@easproject.com