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Product Description: Multidimensional Democracy examines political representation from the supply (legislator) and demand (constituent) perspectives. Focusing on four dimensions - policy, service, allocation, and descriptive representation - it documents systematic variation in what people want from legislators and what legislators choose to emphasize while in office...read more
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9781107130968 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 26, 2015, cover price $99.99 | About this edition: Multidimensional Democracy examines political representation from the supply (legislator) and demand (constituent) perspectives.
Product Description: This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracyâinstitutions like the ballot initiative and the referendumâendangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority. While advocates of direct democracy advocate that these institutions protect citizens from corrupt lawmakers beholden to special interests, Daniel Lewisâs thorough investigation shows how such mass participation exposes minority groups to negative policy outcomes favored by only a slim majority of voters...read more
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9780415537438 | Routledge, November 14, 2012, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracyâinstitutions like the ballot initiative and the referendumâendangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority.
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9780415537445 | Routledge, November 14, 2012, cover price $47.95 | About this edition: This book conclusively demonstrates that direct democracyâinstitutions like the ballot initiative and the referendumâendangers the rights of minorities and perpetuates a tyranny of the majority.
Product Description: An enduring question for most nations has been how to best represent their citizens and their needs. This is a complex issue as there is no universally accepted definition of good representation. Representation and Institutional Design addresses the issues of institutions and representation by examining how variation in institutional design can affect many aspects of how legislators represent their constituents...read more
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9780739150672 | Lexington Books, March 31, 2011, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: An enduring question for most nations has been how to best represent their citizens and their needs.
Product Description: The formality, timelessness, and public grandeur of representative government are on display at every one of America's fifty state capitols. Fifty State Capitols describes the makesty and stateliness of each capitol's exterior form and selected intererior details in words and photographs...read more
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9780983029205 | Coho Pub, June 1, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The formality, timelessness, and public grandeur of representative government are on display at every one of America's fifty state capitols.
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9780814290637 | Cdr edition (Ohio State Univ Pr, May 15, 2005), cover price $14.95
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9780814209387 | Ohio State Univ Pr, April 15, 2005, cover price $47.95
Product Description: Â âWhat is representation?â is a question that has been raised and discussed many times. In Bringing Representation Home, Michael A. Smith strays from the norm by asking instead, âHow can we discover what representation is?â In pursuing the answer to this question, Smith focuses on what representation is in practice, not what it is in theory...read more
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9780826214522 | Univ of Missouri Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Â âWhat is representation?
Product Description: This is a discussion of the health of representative government in America today through an analysis of the contemporary character of state legislatures. During the last 20 years the states have undergone a major transformation as legislatures have come to resemble more and more the U...read more
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9780819185341 | Univ Pr of Amer, August 1, 1992, cover price $75.50 | About this edition: This is a discussion of the health of representative government in America today through an analysis of the contemporary character of state legislatures.
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9780819185358 | Univ Pr of Amer, July 1, 1992, cover price $41.99 | About this edition: This is a discussion of the health of representative government in America today through an analysis of the contemporary character of state legislatures.
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