title: Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook (International IDEA Handbooks series)
author:  Andrew Reynolds 
description: <div></div><div>"Provides a clear and thorough overview of the alternative electoral systems used around the world, plus a judicious and balanced assessment of their major pros and cons, which will provide invaluable insights for policymakers, electoral administrators, and reformers." &#8212;Pippa Norris, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University<BR></div>
zlib_text: Electoral engineering: voting rules and 
  political behavior
  Author(s)
  Norris, Pippa
  Imprint
  Cambridge University Press, 2004
  Extent
  xi, 375 p.
  ISBN
  9786610449316, 0521536715, 0521829771, 
  0511185685
  Permalink
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  Pages
  265 to 280
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  11
  The Impact of Electoral Engineering
  The starting point for this book was the observation that during the last
  decade issues of electoral engineering have arisen on the policy agenda in
  many countries. Major reforms in established democracies have challenged
  the notion that electoral systems are necessarily stable institutions. In most
  Western democracies, once the great debate about the universal franchise was
  resolved and the mass party system consolidated, electoral systems seemed,
  for the most part, settled and enduring features of the constitutional land-
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