Reflecting All of Us: The Case for Proportional Representation (New Democracy Forum)
Robert Richie; Steven Hill; Joshua Cohen; Joel Rogers
Language: English
Published by Beacon Press, 1999
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- Reflecting All of Us: The Case for Proportional Representation (New Democracy Forum)
- Author
- Robert Richie; Steven Hill; Joshua Cohen; Joel Rogers
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0807044210
- ISBN 13
- 9780807044216
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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The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns.
The series editors, Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious conventional politics. The Forum provides a non-partisan, intellectually open atmosphere in which scholars, policymakers, and activists offer concrete proposals and critical responses. The brief format and modest price of these volumes are designed to ensure wide circulation and provoke debate throughout our communities, universities, and government.
"One of the few places today where serious discussion on our political alternatives is flourishing. An antidote to complacence and conventional wisdom, New Democracy Forum offers hope of revitalizing American political debate." --Michael Sandel, author of Democracy's Discontent
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