{"product_id":"wrestling-with-democracy","title":"Wrestling with Democracy","description":"\u003cp\u003eThough sharing broadly similar processes of economic and political development from the mid-to-late nineteenth century onward, western countries have diverged greatly in their choice of voting systems: most of Europe shifted to proportional voting around the First World War, while Anglo-American countries have stuck with relative majority or majority voting rules. Using a comparative historical approach, \u003cem\u003eWrestling with Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e examines why voting systems have (or have not) changed in western industrialized countries over the past century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this first single-volume study of voting system reform covering all western industrialized countries, Dennis Pilon reviews national efforts in this area over four timespans: the nineteenth century, the period around the First World War, the Cold War, and the 1990s. Pilon provocatively argues that voting system reform has been a part of larger struggles over defining democracy itself, highlighting previously overlooked episodes of reform and challenging widely held assumptions about institutional change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"By Dennis Pilon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43575408754870,"sku":"9781442613508","price":34.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9781442613508_ef944e3e-0d2c-4e3f-be5e-f9b7f6751cda.jpg?v=1727458485","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/wrestling-with-democracy","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}