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1	Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 1996, this text arrives at important - and unexpected - conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits. see all copies from £9.28! new only from £10.72! \| first editions
2	Democracy in Plural Societies: A Comparative Exploration more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist see all copies from £11.18! new only from £13.57! \| first editions
3	Parliamentary Versus Presidential Government more books like this by Arend Lijphart (Editor) add to wishlist Parliamentary and presidential government, exemplified by the United Kingdom and most continental European countries on the one hand and the United States and Latin America on the other, are the two principal forms of democracy in the modern world. Their respective advantages and disadvantages have long been debated, at first mainly by British and ... see all copies from £3.04! new only from £27.79!
4	Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies, 1945-1990 more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist An electoral system is the most fundamental element of representative democracy, translating citizen's votes into representatives' seats. It is also the most potent practical instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies the 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies - including ... see all copies from £12.15! new only from £33.55!
5	Institutional Design in New Democracies more books like this by Arend Lijphart, Carlos H Waisman (Editor), Editor * (Editor) add to wishlist Countries throughout Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe are moving from semi-closed to open economies and from authoritarian to democratic political systems. Despite important differences between the regions, these transitions involve similar tasks: the establishment of governmental institutions and electoral systems conducive to ... see all copies from £5.61! new only from £29.98!
6	Trust Beyond Borders: Immigration, the Welfare State, and Identity in Modern Societies more books like this by Markus M L Crepaz, Arend Lijphart (Foreword by) add to wishlist Over the last twenty-five years, a variety of global and domestic changes - including the mass migrations unleashed by the end of the Cold War and the advent of European unification, as well as the onset of globalization and America's War on Terror - have focused worldwide attention on immigration policy. Conventional rhetoric portrays immigration ... see all copies from £12.68! new only from £19.94! \| first editions
7	Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics. "Thinking about Democracy" draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and ... see all copies from £21.52! new only from £21.52!
8	Democracies: Patterns of Majoritarian and Consensus Government in Twenty-One Countries more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is the broadest and most thorough comparative study of ... see all copies from £1.24! new only from £24.83!
9	Electoral Systems and Party Systems more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist An electoral system is the most fundamental element of representative democracy, translating citizen's votes into representatives' seats. It is also the most potent practical instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies the 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies - including ... see all copies from £49.41! new only from £57.81!
10	Choosing an Electoral System: Issues and Alternatives more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist This outstanding volume brings together major arguments on what constitutes the best electoral system, particulary on the relative merits of plurality and proportional representation. see all copies from £20.10! new only from £120.94!
11	Power-Sharing in South Africa more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist see all copies from £8.10! new only from £27.11!
12 view cover	Electoral Laws and Their Political Consequences more books like this by Bernard Grofman (Editor), Arend Lijphart (Editor) add to wishlist ..." a usful volume on the impact of electoral laws...includes a very good bibliography and index...establishes a broader international and interdisciplinary perspective on the methods of representation." - American Political Science Review see all copies from £14.43! new only from £51.34!
13	Politics in Europe; comparisons and interpretations. more books like this by Arend Lijphart (Compiled by) add to wishlist see all copies from £8.25!
14	Conflict & Coexistence in Belgium: The Dynamics of a Culturally Divided Society more books like this by Carl G. Rosberg (Designed by), Arend Lijphart (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £13.33!
15	The Politics of Accommodation: Pluralism and Democracy in the Netherlands more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist see all copies from £14.30!
16	The trauma of decolonization : the Dutch and West New Guinea. more books like this by Arend Lijphart add to wishlist see all copies from £9.97! first editions
17	World politics; the writings of theorists and practitioners, classical and modern. more books like this by Arend Lijphart (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from £3.89!
18	Politics, Society, and Democracy: Comparative Studies more books like this by Gregory Kasza, Arend Lijphart, Mattei Dogan add to wishlist One of a series honouring the work of Juan Linz on Spanish and Latin American studies, comparative politics and sociology. It examines research methodology, non-democratic polities, democracy and democratization, and centre-periphery relationships in national and transnational democratic polities. see all copies from £106.82!

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