TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levi,Margaret
TI  - Designing democratic government: making institutions work 
SN  - 0871545187
AV  - JC 423 D457 2008
U1  - 320.973 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Russell Sage Foundation
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Democracy
KW  - United States
KW  - Gobierno Comparada
KW  - Democracia
KW  - Estados Unidos
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Mobilizing institutions and class bias in U.S. electrical politics, 1964 to 2004 / Jan E. Leighley and Jonathan Naglar -- Barriers to participation for whom? Regulations on voting and uncompetitive elections / Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan -- Mobilizing political engagement and participation in diverse societies : the impact of institutional arrangements / Susan A. Banducci and Jeffrey A. Karp -- Ethnic invention : a new principle for institutional design in ethnically divided democracies / Kanchan Chandra -- Evaluating the impact of redistricting on district homogeneity, political competition, and political extremism in the U.S. House of Representatives, 1962 to 2006 / Thomas L. Brunell and Bernard Grofman -- Redistricting institutions and competition in U.S. house districts / Michael P. McDonald -- An evaluation of the electoral and behavioral impact of majority-minority districts / David Lublin and Gary Segura -- Gerrymanders as trade-offs : the coevolution of social scientific and legal approaches to racial redistricting / David L. Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran -- The primary elections "bonus" in Latin America / John M. Carey and John Polga-Hecimovich -- Accuracy and security in voting systems / Henry E. Brady and Iris Hui -- Improving the measurement of election system performance in the United States / Charles Stewart III
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip089/2008002142.html
ER  -