There are an astonishing variety of election laws across contemporary democratic societies. In Establishing the Rules of the Game, Louis Massicotte, Andre Blais, and Antoine Yoshinaka provide the first thorough examination of these laws. The study incorporates original data collected from more than sixty democracies around the world, and touches on oft-ignored, yet extremely important, aspects of election laws. The countries covered by the study include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, France, Japan, the Netherlands, the Philippines, Romania, and the United Kingdom. The authors focus on six dimensions of election laws: the right to vote, the right to be a candidate, the electoral register, the agency in charge of the election, the procedure for casting votes, and the procedure to sort out the winners and losers. Massicotte, Blais, and Yoshinaka uncover underlying patterns, explaining why certain types of country tend to adopt a given sets of rules. In general, former colonies adopt the same laws as their former mother country. There is also a tendency for established democracies to be more inclusive than non-established ones. The authors point out sociological patterns and review normative and practical arguments for and against each set of rules, providing invaluable information for students of elections and democratic theory as well as election practicioners.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
ISBN-13
9780802087690
eBay Product ID (ePID)
95735387
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Constitutional Law
Author
Antoine Yoshinaka, ANDRÉ Blais, Louis Massicotte
Publication Name
Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Politics
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
156mm
Item Weight
440g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
ANDRÉ Blais, Antoine Yoshinaka, Louis Massicotte
Country/Region of Manufacture
Canada
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