Download or read book Minority Or Proportional Representation written by Salem Dutcher and published by New York, United States publishing Company. This book was released on 1872 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minority or Proportional Representation written by Salem Dutcher and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1872.
Download or read book A Right to Representation written by Kathleen L. Barber and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From this practice stems the endemic underrepresentation of minorities in our political life. Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has led to increased minority electoral success, but the strategy most commonly used - creation of majority-minority districts - has come under attack in the Supreme Court.".
Download or read book Minority Or Proportional Representation written by Salem Dutcher and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Minority or Proportional Representation: Its Nature, Aims, History, Processes, and Practical Operation Tiie C umulative vote - its history - practical operation - adop tion IN england, pennsylvania, west virgmia, new york, and utah - application TO corporate and ecesiastical elections - its constitutionality - defects.. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Proportional Representation written by Charles Rollin Buckalew and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1872 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reflecting All of Us written by Robert Richie and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1999-01-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Parliament the Mirror of the Nation written by Gregory Conti and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notion of 'representative democracy' seems unquestionably familiar today, but how did the Victorians understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity?
Download or read book Fair and Effective Representation written by Mark E. Rush and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two experts on political representation, voting rights, and the election process debate the most pertinent issues of electoral reform and assess them in the context of the Founders' vision of representation and minority rights. Mark E. Rush and Richard L. Engstrom discuss the promises and pitfalls of electoral reform--specifically, the merits of converting from the traditional single-member district to some form of proportional representation. The authors examine the shortcomings of the existing methods of elections (such as gerrymandering, low turnout, voter apathy, and underrepresentation of minorities and women), debate the merits of converting to proportional representation, ask whether it would address the imperfections of the current system, and investigate the extent to which proportional representation adheres to the Founders' (particularly Madison's) plan for representation. With an introduction by esteemed political scientist Bruce E. Cain, this is an essential text for courses in voting rights and behavior, elections, and American political thought.
Download or read book Proportional Representation written by Matthias Nace Forney and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Representation written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Electoral Reform and Minority Representation written by Shaun Bowler and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of minority representation have long plagued the U.S. voting systems. The standard election often leaves political, racial, or ethnic minorities with little chance of being represented. Race-conscious districting remains the primary policy tool used for providing representation of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States--and it continues to generate tremendous conflict. Can alternatives to race-conscious, single-member districts offer benefits that extend beyond simply providing descriptive representations of minorities? This study examines one such "semi-proportional" representation election system: Cumulative Voting (CV). For over a decade, scores of local U.S. governments have been elected by Cumulative Voting. This provides us with the ability to examine the effects of CV elections over time. Moreover, the use of CV in the United States allows us to compare politics in places that adopted CV to highly similar places that did not. Electoral Reform and Minority Representation shares evidence that CV elections can produce minority representation that matches levels generated with the drawing of race-conscious "majority-minority" districting. It also offers evidence that the quality of democratic processes in CV communities is in several ways higher that those under districts. Given America's growing racial and ethnic diversity, and given successful legal challenges that limit the use of race-conscious districting Electoral Reform and Minority Representation suggests that Cumulative Voting may be a better way to achieve minority representation in U.S. politics.
Download or read book MINORITY OR PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION written by SALEM. DUTCHER and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Minority Representation and the Quest for Voting Equality written by Bernard Grofman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the passage of the Voting Rights Act in 1965, the right of minorities to register and vote was largely secured. It was soon discovered, however, that minority voting did not guarantee the election of minorities or minority-preferred candidates. Indeed, efforts by states and localities in the second half of the 1960s were aimed at denying any substantial minority representation to go along with the ability to cast ballots. Eventually congressional amendments to the Act along with the Supreme Court opinion in Thornburg v. Gingles (1986) have led to efforts to eliminate electoral laws that have the effect of diluting the minority vote, whether or not they were enacted with discriminatory intent. Controversy still surrounds the matter of minority representation, however, because of the ambiguity of certain aspects of the law and because of problems in applying it to the largely single-member district context of the 1990s. This book is the most up-to-date treatment of voting rights law and the numerous controversies surrounding minority representation. The authors have extensive, firsthand experience in both the legal battles and the scholarly examination of these issues. Based on this wealth of experience, they describe the development of the law after 1965, discuss in detail the prevailing Supreme Court interpretation of the Voting Rights Act, and examine discrepancies in federal court interpretations of subsequent actions. They also introduce the reader to technical procedures for establishing standards of representation and measuring discrimination. In the final two chapters, they consider the application of voting rights law to districting in the 1990s along with the implications of recent developments for the future of representation in America.
Download or read book Political Reform by the Representation of Minorities written by Matthias Nace Forney and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On the Representation of Minorities of Electors to Act with the Majority in Elected Assemblies written by Thomas Gilpin and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proportional Representation written by Clarence Gilbert Hoag and published by New York : The Macmillan Company. This book was released on 1926 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Select bibliography": pages 514-517.
Download or read book Minority Or Proportional Representation written by Salem Dutcher and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: