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Cover -- Contents -- List of Boxes, Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- 1 The Study of Electoral Systems -- 1.1 Why Study Electoral Systems? -- 1.2 Classifying Electoral Systems -- 1.3 Confl icting Views on the Meaning of 'Representation' -- 1.4 Conclusion -- 2 The Single-Member Plurality System and its Cousins -- 2.1 The Single-Member Plurality System in Practice -- 2.2 Britain's Long Road to Electoral Reform -- 2.3 The Electoral Reform Debate in Other SMP Countries -- 2.4 Other Plurality Systems -- 2.5 Conclusion -- 3 Majority Electoral Systems: Two-Round Systems and the Alternative Vote -- 3.1 The Two-Round System -- 3.2 The Alternative Vote System -- 3.3 Assessing Majority Electoral Systems -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 The List Systems of Proportional Representation -- 4.1 The Origins of List PR Systems -- 4.2 Electoral Formulas: Largest Remainders and Highest Averages -- 4.3 District Magnitude: Constituency Size and Multi-Tier Districting -- 4.4 Ballot Structure: Closed, Ordered and Open Lists -- 4.5 The Operation of the List PR System in the Netherlands -- 4.6 Conclusion -- 5 Mixed-Member Electoral Systems -- 5.1 The Operation of Germany's Mixed-Member Electoral System -- 5.2 Proportionality, Parties and Politics in Germany -- 5.3 Other Mixed-Member Electoral Systems -- 5.4 Conclusion -- 6 The Single Transferable Vote System of Proportional Representation -- 6.1 STV in Ireland -- 6.2 How STV Works -- 6.3 Variations in STV Design -- 6.4 The Consequences of STV for the Political System -- 6.5 Conclusion -- 7 The Consequences of Electoral Systems -- 7.1 Proportionality Profi les of Different Electoral Systems -- 7.2 Electoral Systems and Party Systems -- 7.3 Parliament as a 'Microcosm'? -- 7.4 The Strategic Effects of Electoral Systems -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 The Politics of Electoral System Design.

Defence date: 5 November 1993 ; Examining board: Prof. Jean Blondel (European University Institute) ; Prof. Michael Laver (supervisor - Trinity College Dublin) ; Prof. Peter Mair (University of Leiden) ; Prof. Wolfgang Müller (University of Vienna) ; Prof. Richard Sinnott (co-supervisor - University College Dublin) ; First made available online: 31 May 2016

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This is the first book-length study of its kind to analyse the effects of electoral systems on the representative activities of elected parliamentary representatives. It will be of great interest to comparative legislative studies scholars and electoral systems specialists.