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CHAPTER TEN: ELECTIONS AND VOTERS

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a. 'The problem with proportional representation today is not too little stability but too much, leading to governance which offends no one and therefore achieves nothing.' Discuss.

b. Explore the causes and consequences of partisan dealignment.

c. What solutions can comparative study offer to the problem of declining electoral turnout?

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Hague & Harrop, 2007 edn, ch. 10.

P. Abramson, J. Aldrich and D. Rohde, Change and Continuity in the 2004 Elections ( Washington. DC: CQ Press, 2005)

J. Colomer, ed., Handbook of Electoral System Choice

R. Dalton and M. Wattenberg, Politics without Partisans.

D. Farrell, Comparing Electoral Systems

M. Franklin, Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies since 1945

M. Franklin, T. Mackie and H. Valen, Electoral Change: Responses to Evolving

Social and Attitudinal Structures in Western Countries

M. Gallagher and P. Mitchell, The Politics of Electoral Systems

K. Jennings and T. Mann, eds, Elections at Home and Abroad, pp.93-122

L. LeDuc, R. Niemi and P. Norris, eds, Comparing Democracies 2: Elections and

Voting in Global Perspective , chs by Dalton and Franklin

Lijphart, 'Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma', American

Political Science Review 91 (1997) 1-14

W. Miller and J. Shanks, The New American Voter ( Cambridge, MA and London:

Harvard University Press, 1996)