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This is an election related bibliography of academic publications. Feel free to suggest entries via the link in the margin, or proceed to click on the publication and comment them.

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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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  • Alvarez, R. Michael, Thad E. Hall and Susan D. Hyde (eds), Election Fraud Detecting and Deterring Electoral Manipulation, (Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2008)
  • Amy, Douglas J., Behind the Ballot Box: A Citizen's Guide to Voting Systems (Westport, Connecticut: Praeger, 2000)
  • Andrews, Josephine T. and Jackman, Robert, ‘Strategic Fools: Electoral Rule Choice Under Extreme Uncertainty’, Electoral Studies, 24/1 (2005), pp. 65–84
  • Anesi, Vincent, and Philippe de Donder, Party Formation and Racism (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2007)
  • Arms, Dave, Evaluation of the Alternative Vote System (Suva, Fiji: Dept. of Sociology, University of the South Pacific, 1999)

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  • Barkan, Joel D., ‘Elections in Agrarian Societies’, Journal of Democracy, 6 (1995), pp. 106–116
  • Beer, Caroline C., Electoral Competition and Institutional Change in Mexico (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2003)
  • Bieber, Florian, Post-War Bosnia: Ethnicity, Inequality and Public Sector Governance (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)
  • Biju, M. R., Parliamentary Democracy and Political Change in India (New Delhi: Kanishka Publishers, Distributors, 1999)
  • Birch, Sarah, Full Participation A Comparative Study of Compulsory Voting (Manchester: Manchester Univ. Press, 2009)
  • Birch, Sarah, Electoral Systems and Political Transformation in Post-Communist Europe (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)
  • Birch, Sarah, Embodying Democracy: Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002)
  • Birch, Sarah, ‘Single-Member District Electoral Systems and Democratic Transition’, Electoral Studies, 24/2 (June 2005), pp. 281–301
  • Bjornlund, Eric C., Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy (Washington and Baltimore: Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004)
  • Blais, André, To Keep or to Change First Past the Post?: The Politics of Electoral Reform (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
  • Blake, Donald E., Electoral democracy in the provinces (Montréal: IRPP, 2001)
  • Blanc, Jarrett, Aanund Hylland and Kåre Vollan, State Structures and Electoral Systems in Post-Conflict Situations (Washington, D.C: IFES, 2006, available electronically at: http://www.ifes.org/publication/18e9eaadf913e44e8178acf1987ddf70/State_Structure_Electoral_Systems.pdf)
  • Bogdanor, Vernon, What is Proportional Representation? (Oxford: Martin Robertson, 1984)
  • Bogdanor, Vernon and David Butler (eds), Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and Their Political Consequences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983)
  • Bowler, Shaun, and Todd Donovan, Demanding Choices: Opinion, Voting, and Direct Democracy (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998)
  • Bowler, Shaun and Bernard Grofman (eds), Elections in Australia, Ireland and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote: Reflections on an Embedded Institution (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000)
  • Burnell, Peter, Democracy Assistance: International Co-operation for Democratization (London: F. Cass, 2000)
  • Buttenschøn, Nils and Kåre Vollan, Democracy in Conflict: A Special NORDEM Report on Elections for Local Councils, President and Legislative Council in the Occupied Palestinian Territory 2004-2006 (Oslo: University of Oslo, 2006; available electronically through www.humanrights.uio.no/english)

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  • Cain, Bruce E., Russell J. Dalton, and Susan E. Scarrow, Democracy Transformed?: Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
  • Calvo, Ernesto, and Juan Abal, Institutional Gamblers: Majoritarian Representation, Electoral Uncertainty, and the Coalition Costs of Mexico's Hybrid Electoral System (México: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales, Sede Académica de México, 2001)
  • Cantillon, Estelle, Electoral Rules and the Emergence of New Issue Dimensions (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2001)
  • Carothers, Thomas, ’The Observers Observed’, Journal of Democracy, 8.3 (1997), pp. 17-31.
  • Carty, R. Kenneth, Doing Democracy Differently: Has Electoral Reform Finally Arrived? (Saskatoon: University of Saskatchewan, 2004)
  • Choe, Yonhyok, How to Manage Free and Fair Elections: A Comparison of Korea, Sweden and the United Kingdom (Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg, 1997)
  • Colomer, Josep, ‘It’s Parties That Choose Electoral Systems (or Duverger’s Laws Upside Down)’, Political Studies, 53 (2005), pp. 1–21
  • Colomer, Josep (ed.), Handbook of Electoral System Choice (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2004)
  • Courtney, John C, Elections (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2004)
  • Cox, Gary W., Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World’s Electoral Systems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)

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  • Dahl, Robert, On Democracy (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1998)
  • Dahlerup, Drude, Women, Quotas and Politics (London: Routledge, 2006)
  • de Zeeuw, Jeroen, and Krishna Kumar (eds), Promoting democracy in postconflict societies, (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishing, 2006)
  • D’Hondt, Victor, La répresentation proportionelle des parties (Ghent, 1878)
  • Diamond, Larry, The Spirit of Democracy: The Struggle to Build Free Societies Throughout the World, (New York: Times Books, 2008)
  • Diamond, Larry Jay, and Marc F. Plattner, Electoral Systems and Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
  • Diamond, Larry Jay, Marc F. Plattner and Daniel Brumberg (eds), Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003)
  • Downs, Anthony, An Economic Theory of Democracy (New York: Harper and Row, 1957)
  • Droop, Henry R., Methods of Electing Representatives (London: Macmillan, 1868)
  • Duverger, Maurice, Political Parties: Their Organization and Activity in the Modern State (New York: John Wiley, 1954)

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  • Elklit, Jørgen and Andrew Reynolds, ‘A Framework for the Systematic Study of Election Quality’, Democratization, 12/2 (2005) pp.147–162
  • Elklit, Jørgen, ‘Electoral Institutional Change and Democratization: You Can Lead a Horse to Water, But You Can’t Make It Drink’, Democratization, 6/4 (winter 1999/2000), pp. 28–51
  • Elklit, Jørgen and Nigel S. Roberts, ‘A Category of its Own? Four PR Two-Tier Compensatory Member Electoral Systems in 1994’, European Journal of Political Research, 30 (1996), pp. 217–240
  • Elklit, Jørgen and Reynolds, Andrew, ‘The Impact of Election Administration on the Legitimacy of Emerging Democracies: A New Research Agenda’, Working Paper no. 281, Kellogg Institute, Notre Dame, Ind., 2000
  • Elklit, Jørgen and Reynolds, Andrew, ‘Judging Elections and Election Management Quality by Process’, Representation, 41/3 (2005), pp. 189–207
  • Elklit, Jørgen and Reynolds, Andrew, ‘Analysing the Impact of Election Administration on Democratic Politics’, Representation, 38/1 (2001), pp. 3–10
  • Emerson, P. J., Defining Democracy: Decisions, Elections and Good Governance (Belfast: de Borda Institute, 2002)
  • Ezra, Marni, Peter F. Galderisi, and Michael Lyons, Congressional Primaries and the Politics of Representation (Lanham, Md. [u.a.]: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001)

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  • Farrell, David M., Electoral Systems: A Comparative Introduction (London and New York: Palgrave, 2001)
  • Farrell, David M., and Roger Scully, Representing Europe's Citizens?: Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Farrell, David M., and Ian McAllister, The Australian Electoral System: Origins, Variations and Consequences (Sydney: University of New South Wales Press, 2006)
  • Farrell, David M., and Ian McAllister, Voter Satisfaction and Electoral Systems: Does Preferential Voting in Candidate-Centered Systems Make a Difference? (Irvine, California: Center for the Study of Democracy, 2004)
  • Ferrara, Federico, Erik  S. Herron, and Misa Nishikawa, Mixed Electoral Systems: Contamination and Its Consequences (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
  • Finer, S. E. (ed.), Adversary Politics and Electoral Reform (London: Anthony Wigram, 1975)
  • Franklin, Mark, The Dynamics of Voter Turnout in Established Democracies Since 1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003)

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  • Gallagher, Michael, ‘Comparing Proportional Representation Electoral Systems: Quotas, Thresholds, Paradoxes, and Majorities’, British Journal of Political Science, no. 22 (1992), pp. 469–496
  • Gallagher, Michael and Paul Mitchell (eds), The Politics of Electoral Systems (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • Geisler, Gisela, ‘Fair? What Has Fairness Got to Do with It? Vagaries of Election Observations and Democratic Standards’, Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (Dec1993), pp. 613-637
  • Gersbach, Hans, and Markus Müller, Elections, Contracts and Markets (London: Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2006)
  • Gladdish, Ken, ’Choosing an Electoral System: The Primacy of the Particular’, Journal of Democracy. 4.1 (1993). pp. 53-65. 
  • Golder, Matt, ‘Democratic Electoral Systems Around the World 1946–2000’, Electoral Studies, 24/1 (2005), pp. 103–121
  • Grofman, Bernard and Arend Lijphart (eds), Electoral Laws and their Political Consequences (New York: Agathon Press, 1986)
  • Grofman, Bernard, Arend Lijphart, Robert McKay and Howard Scarrow (eds), Representation and Redistricting Issues (Lexington, Maryland: Lexington Books, 1982)
  • Grofman, Bernard, Sung-Chull Lee, Edwin A. Winckler and Brian Woodall (eds), Elections in Japan, Korea and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999)
  • Grofman, Bernard and Arend Lijphart (eds), The Evolution of Electoral and Party System in the Nordic Countries (New York: Agathon Press, 2002)
  • Grofman, Bernard, and Jon Fraenkel, Special Issue on Political Culture, Representation and Electoral Systems in the Pacific Islands (London: Frank Cass, 2005)
  • Grossback, Lawrence James, David A. M. Peterson, and James A. Stimson, Mandate Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
  • Guinier, Lani, The Tyranny of the Majority (New York: Free Press, 1994)

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  • Hardaway, Robert M., Crisis at the Polls: An Electoral Reform Handbook (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2008)
  • Hare, Thomas, On the Election of Representatives, Parliamentary and Municipal: A Treatise (London: Longmans Green, 1873)
  • Hermens, Ferdinand, Democracy or Anarchy? A Study of Proportional Representation, 2nd edn (New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1972)
  • Hloušek, Vít, and Roman Chytilek, Parliamentary Elections and Party Landscape in the Visegrád Group Countries, Comparative political science, vol. no. 7 (Brno: CDK Democracy and Culture Studies Centre, 2007)
  • Horowitz, Donald L., ‘Democracy in Divided Societies’, Journal of Democracy, 4 (1993), pp. 18–38
  • Horowitz, Donald L., ‘Electoral Systems: A Primer for Decision Makers’, Journal of Democracy, 14 (2003), pp. 115–127

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    J

  • James, Peter, Elections and Electoral Systems in Germany (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2004)
  • James, Peter, The German Electoral System (Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2003)
  • James, Wilmot Godfrey, Values and the Electoral System (Cape Town: s.n, 2002)
  • Johnson, Nevil, Electoral Reform: The Risks of Unintended Consequences : a Submission to the Independent Commission on the Voting System (London: Centre for Policy Studies, 1998)
  • Johnston, Lawrence Walker, From Votes to Seats: Four Families of Electoral Systems: Proportional Representation Majority, Plurality, Mixed (Toronto: Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform, 2007)
  • Johnston, Ron, Charles Pattie, Danny Dorling and David Rossiter, From Votes to Seats: The Operation of the UK Electoral System since 1945 (Manchester: University of Manchester Press, 2002)
  • Jones, Mark P., Electoral Laws and the Survival of Presidential Democracies (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1995)

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  • Karakamiševa, Tanja, Elections and Electoral Systems: Analyses, Situations, Dilemmas, Solutions, Edition XXI century (Skopje: Kultura, 2004)
  • Katz, Richard, Democracy and Elections (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990)
  • Klingemann, Hans-Dieter, The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (New York: Oxford University Press, 2009)
  • Kumar, Krishna (ed.), Postconflict Elections, Democratization and International Assistance (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1998)

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  • Laanela, Therese, ‘Crafting Sustainable Election Processes in New Democracies’, Representation, 36/4 (1999), pp. 284–93
  • Lakeman, Enid, How Democracies Vote (London: Faber and Faber, 1974)
  • Lardeyret, Guy, ‘The Problem with PR’, Journal of Democracy, 2 (1991), pp. 30–35
  • Latner, Michael, and Anthony J. McGann, Geographical Representation Under Proportional Representation: The Cases of Israel and the Netherlands (Irvine, CA: Center for the Study of Democracy, 2004)
  • LeDuc, Lawrence, Richard G. Niemi and Pippa Norris (eds), Comparing Democracies 2: Elections and Voting in Global Perspective (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 2002)
  • Lehoucq, Fabrice E., ‘Can Parties Police Themselves? Electoral Governance and Democratization’, International Political Science Review, 23/1 (2002), pp. 29–46
  • Lijphart, Arend, ‘Advances in the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems’, World Politics, XXXVI/3 (1984), pp. 424–36
  • Lijphart, Arend, Electoral Systems and Party Systems. A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990 (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994)
  • Lijphart, Arend, ‘Constitutional Design for Divided Societies’, Journal of Democracy, 15/2 (2004)
  • Lijphart, Arend, Patterns of Democracy (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1999)
  • Lijphart, Arend, Thinking About Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice (London, New York: Routledge, 2008)
  • Lijphart, Arend and Bernard Grofman (eds), Choosing an Electoral System: Issues and Alternatives (New York: Praeger, 1984)
  • Lindberg, Staffan I., Democracy and Elections in Africa (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006)
  • Lodge, Tom, Consolidating Democracy: South Africa's Second Popular Election (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1999)
  • Lovenduski, Joni and Pippa Norris (eds), Gender and Party Politics (London: Sage, 1993)
  • Lundell, Krister, Contextual Determinants of Electoral System Choice: A Macro-Comparative Study 1945-2003 (Åbo: Åbo Akademis förlag, 2005)

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  • Mackie, Thomas and Richard Rose, A Decade of Election Results: Updating the International Almanac. Studies in Public Policy (Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, 1997)
  • Mackie, Thomas and Richard Rose, The International Almanac of Electoral History (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1991)
  • Mainwaring, Scott and Matthew Shugart, Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997)
  • Maisel, Louis Sandy, American Political Parties and Elections. A Very Short Introduction (Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Maloney, John, Andrew Pickering, and Bernard R. Pearson, Behind the Cube Rule: Implications of and Evidence against a Fractoral Electoral Geography (Exeter: University of Exeter, Department of Economics, 2001)
  • Massicotte, Louis, André Blais and Antoine Yoshinaka, Establishing the Rules of the Game: Election Laws in Democracies (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2003)
  • Massicotte, Louis, Changing the Canadian electoral system (Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 2001)
  • Massicotte, Louis, Do Candidates Reside in Their Electoral Districts?: Evidence from Recent Federal and Provincial Canadian Elections (Montréal: Université de Montréal, Department of Political Science, 2001)
  • McAllister, Ian, The Mixed Member Electoral System in Russia, Studies in public policy, no. 319 (Glasgow: Centre for the Study of Public Policy, University of Strathclyde, 1999)
  • McDonald, Michael, and Ian Budge, Elections, Parties, Democracy: Conferring the Median Mandate (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • Menifield, Charles, Representation of Minority Groups in the U.S.: Implications for the Twenty-First Century (Lanham, Maryland: Austin & Winfield, 2001)
  • Merloe, Patrick, Democratic Elections: Human Rights, Public Confidence and the ‘Level Playing Field’ (Washington, DC: National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, 1997)
  • Millard, F., Elections, Parties, and Representation in Post-Communist Europe (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)
  • Miragliotta, Narelle L., ‘Little Differences, Big Effects: An Example of the Importance of Choice of Method For Transferring Surplus Votes in PR-STV Voting Systems’, Representation, 41/1 (2004) [2005], pp. 15–23
  • Morelli, Massimo, Party Formation and Policy Outcomes Under Different Electoral Systems, Nota di lavoro, 66.98 (Milano, Italy: Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, 1998)
  • Morelli, Massimo, and Michele Tertilt, Policy Stability Under Different Electoral Systems (Columbus, Ohio: Department of Economics, Ohio State University, 2000)
  • Moser, Robert G., Unexpected Outcomes: Electoral Systems, Political Parties, and Representation in Russia (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001)
  • Moser, Robert G. and Ethan Scheiner, ‘Mixed Electoral Systems and Electoral System Effects: Controlled Comparison and Cross-National Analysis’, Electoral Studies: An International Journal, 23/4 (December 2004), pp. 575–600
  • Mottiar, Shauna, Elections and the Electoral System in South Africa: Beyond Free and Fair Elections (Johannesburg, South Africa: Center for Policy Studies, 2005
  • Mozaffar, Shaheen, ‘Patterns of Electoral Governance in Africa’s Emerging Democracies’, International Political Science Review, 23/1 (2002), pp. 85–101
  • Mozaffar, Shaheen and Schedler, Andreas, ‘The Comparative Study of Electoral Governance: Introduction’, International Political Science Review, 23/1 (2002), pp. 5–27
  • Mudambi, Ram, Pietro Navarra, and Giuseppe Sobbrio, Rules, Choice and Strategy: The Political Economy of Italian Electoral Reform, The Locke Institute series (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001)
  • Mueller, Dennis C., Public Choice III (Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006)

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  • Narud, Hanne Marthe, Anne Krogstad, and Henry Valen, Elections, Parties, and Political Representation (Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 2004)
  • Neufeld, Harry, ‘Computerizing Electoral Administration: Part One’, Elections Today, May 1995, pp. 18–21
  • Neufeld, Harry, ‘Computerizing Electoral Administration: Part Two’, Elections Today, October 1995, pp. 22–23
  • Newman, Edward and Roland Rich, The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality (Tokyo: United Nations University Press, 2004)
  • Nishikawa, Misa and Erik S. Herron, ‘Mixed Electoral Rules’ Impact on Party Systems’, Electoral Studies: An International Journal, 23/4 (December 2004), pp. 753–768
  • Nohlen, Dieter, Elections and Electoral Systems (Delhi: Macmillan, 1996)
  • Nohlen, Dieter, Elections in the Americas: A Data Handbook (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005)
  • Nohlen, Dieter et al., Elections in the Asia–Pacific Region (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • Nohlen, Dieter et al., Elections in Africa (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Norris, Pippa, Driving Democracy: Do Power-Sharing Institutions Work? (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
  • Norris, Pippa, Radical Right: Voters and Parties in the Electoral Market (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005)
  • Norris, Pippa, Electoral Engineering: Voting Rules and Political Behavior (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004)

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  • Opello, Katherine A. R., Gender Quotas, Parity Reform, and Political Parties in France (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2006)

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  • Panday, Devendra Raj, Anand Aditya, and Dev Raj Dahal, Comparative Electoral Processes in South Asia (Kathmandu: Nepal South Asia Centre, 1999)
  • Pastor, Robert A., ‘A Brief History of Election Commissions’, in A. Schedler, L. Diamond and M. F. Plattner (eds), The Self-Restraining State (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 1999)
  • Pastor, Robert A., ‘The Role of Electoral Administration in Democratic Transitions: Implications for Policy and Research’, Democratization, 6/4 (winter 1999/2000), pp. 1–27
  • Pearse, Hilary, and Mark E. Warren, Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly, Theories of institutional design (2008)
  • Persson, Torsten, Guido Tabellini, and Francisco Trebbi, ’Electoral Rules and Corruption’, Journal of the European Economic Association. 1.4 (2003). pp. 958-959.
  • Phukon, Girin, and Adil-ul- Yasin, Working of Parliamentary Democracy and Electoral Politics in Northeast India (New Delhi: South Asian Publishers, 1998)
  • Pilon, Dennis, The Politics of Voting: Reforming Canada's Electoral System (Toronto: Emond Montgomery Publications, 2007)
  • Pitkin, Hanna F., The Concept of Representation (Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1967)
  • Piscopo, Jennifer M., Engineering Quotas in Latin America (La Jolla, California: University of California, Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies, 2006)
  • Powell, G. Bingham, Elections As Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Visions (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000)
  • Przeworski, Adam, Susan Carol Stokes, and Bernard Manin, Democracy, Accountability, and Representation, Cambridge studies in the theory of democracy (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1999)

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  • Rae, Douglas W., The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1967)
  • Reeve, Andrew, and Alan Ware, Electoral Systems: A Comparative and Theoretical Introduction, Theory and practice in British politics (London ;New York, NY: Routledge, 2001)
  • Reilly, Ben, Democracy in Divided Societies: Electoral Engineering for Conflict Management (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
  • Reilly, Ben, The Borda Count in the Real World: The Electoral System in the Republic of Nauru, Macmillan Brown working paper series, no. 8 (Christchurch, N.Z.: Macmillan Brown Center for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury, 2001)
  • Reilly, Ben, ‘The Global Spread of Preferential Voting: Australian Institutional Imperialism?’, Australian Journal of Political Science, 39/2 (July 2004), pp. 253–266
  • Reilly, Ben, and Andrew Reynolds, Electoral Systems and Conflict in Divided Societies, Papers on international conflict resolution, no. 2 (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1999)
  • Reynolds, Andrew, Electoral Systems and Democratization in Southern Africa (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)
  • Reynolds, Andrew, Electoral Systems and the Protection and Participation of Minorities (London: Minority Rights Group International, 2006)
  • Reynolds, Andrew (ed.), The Architecture of Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
  • Reynolds, Andrew, Ben Reilly and Andrew Ellis (eds), The New International IDEA Handbook of Electoral System Design (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2005)
  • Reynolds, Andrew, and Timothy D. Sisk, Elections and Conflict Management in Africa (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998)
  • Roberts, Nigel S., Living Up to Expectations?: The New Fijian Electoral System and the 1999 General Election (Wellington, N.Z.: N.S. Roberts, 2000)
  • Robinson, Chris, Electoral Systems and Voting in Britain (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2008)
  • Romanelli, Raffaele, How did they become voters?: the history of franchise in modern European representation (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 1998)
  • Rose, Richard (ed.), International Encyclopedia of Elections (Washington D.C.: CQ Press, 2000)
  • Rose, Richard, and Neil Munro, Elections and Parties in New European Democracies (Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, A Division of Congressional Quarterly, 2003)
  • Rose, Richard, and Neil Munro, Elections Without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002)
  • Roulston, Carmel, Elections in Northern Ireland: Systems for Stability and Success. Working paper series (Democratic dialogue) (Belfast: Democratic Dialogue, 1998)
  • Rule, Wilma and Joseph Zimmerman (eds), Electoral Systems in Comparative Perspective: Their Impact on Women and Minorities (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1994)

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  • Sainte-Laguë, André, ‘La répresentation proportionelle et la methode des moindres carrés’, in Comptes Rendus Hébdomadaires des Séances de l’Académie des Sciences, vol. 151 (1910) pp. 377-8
     English translation: ‘Proportional Representation and the Method of Least Squares’, in Arend Lijphart and Robert W. Gibber, ‘Thresholds and Payoffs in List Systems of Proportional Representation’, European Journal of Political Research, 5 (1977), Appendix 2: 241-2
  • Sartori, Giovanni, Parties and Party Systems: A Framework for Analysis (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1976)
  • Sartori, Giovanni, Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry Into Structures, Incentives, and Outcomes (New York: Columbia University Press, 1994)
  • Sanbonmatsu, Kira, Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006)
  • Schagen, J. A. van, Electoral Systems and Representative Government. Comparative constitutional and administrative law (Nijmegen: Stichting Ars Aequi, 2000)
  • Schedler, Andreas (ed), Electoral Authoritarianism: The Dynamics of Unfree Competition (Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006)
  • Schofield, Norman, Representative Democracy and Electoral Rules (St. Louis, Montana: Washington University, School of Business and Center in Political Economy, 2000)
  • Shapiro, Robert Y., The Meaning of American Democracy (New York: Academy of Political Science, 2005)
  • Shugart, Matthew S. and Martin P. Wattenberg, Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • Shugart, Matthew S. and John Carey, Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992)
  • Sisk, Timothy D., Power Sharing and International Mediation in Ethnic Conflicts (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996)
  • Soudriette, Richard W., Juliana Geran Pilon (eds) Every Vote Counts: The Role of Elections in Building Democracy (University Press of America, 2007)

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  • Taagepera, Rein, Predicting Party Sizes: The Logic of Simple Electoral Systems (Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, 2007)
  • Taagepera, Rein and Matthew S. Shugart, Seats and Votes: The Effects and Determinants of Electoral Systems (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1989)
  • Theriault, Sean M., The Power of the People: Congressional Competition, Public Attention, and Voter Retribution (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2005)

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  • Uhr, John, Rules for Representation: Parliament and the Design of the Australian Electoral System, The vision in hindsight: Parliament and the Constitution: paper, no. 5 (Canberra: Dept. of the Parliamentary Library, 2000)

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  • Wattenberg, Martin, Where Have All The Voters Gone? (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002)
  • Watts, Duncan, British Electoral Systems: Achieving a Sense of Proportion, Politics 2000 (Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University Press, 2000)
  • Weinber, Leonard, Democratic Responses to Terrorism, (London: Routledge, 2007)

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