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100	1		_aEmerson, Peter. _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aDefining Democracy _h[electronic resource] : _bVoting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance / _cby Peter Emerson.
250			_a2.
264		1	_aBerlin, Heidelberg : _bSpringer Berlin Heidelberg : _bImprint: Springer, _c2012.
300			_aXXVII, 192p. 18 illus. _bonline resource.
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337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0		_aForeword by Professor Arend Lijphart -- Part I: Decision-Making -- 1 The Myths of Majority Rule -- 2 Pluralist Decision-Maing -- Part II:  Elections -- 3 "Party-ocracies" -- 4 The Candid Candidate -- Part III: The Art of Governance -- 5 The Elected Dictator -- 6 Governance -- Appendices -- Chronology -- References -- Index.
520			_aDefining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elections to and within those chambers; and thirdly, in the various forms of governance, from no-party to multi-party and all-party, which have emerged as a result.
650		0	_aSocial sciences.
650		0	_aFinance.
650	1	4	_aSocial Sciences.
650	2	4	_aPolitical Science, general.
650	2	4	_aPublic Finance & Economics.
710	2		_aSpringerLink (Online service)
773	0		_tSpringer eBooks
776	0	8	_iPrinted edition: _z9783642209031
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20904-8
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