{"product_id":"wrestling-with-democracy-9781442645417","title":"Wrestling with Democracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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\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 o\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction  Chapter 2: Contextualizing Democracy  Chapter 3: Prologue to the Democratic Era  Chapter 4: Facing the Democratic Challenge 1900-1918  Chapter 5: Struggling with Democracy 1919-39  Chapter 6: The Cold War Democratic Compromise 1940-1969  Chapter 7: The Neoliberal Democratic Realignment 1970-2000  Chapter 8: Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408368017751,"sku":"9781442645417","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442645417.jpg?v=1730502637","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wrestling-with-democracy-9781442645417","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}