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

Cox

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521585279 ISBN 13: 9780521585279

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This book investigates strategic coordination in elections worldwide.

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Review

"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

Book Description

The classics of electoral studies have dealt with issues of coordination, but this is the first book that employs a unified game-theoretic model to study strategic coordination worldwide and that relies primarily on constituency-level rather than national aggregate data in testing theoretical propositions about the effects of electoral laws. Winner of the Wilson Prize for the best book in political science published in 1997, the Luebbert Prize awarded to the best book in comparative politics, and the prize for the American Political Science Association for the best book in political economy.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521585279
• ISBN 13: 9780521585279
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360