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List of contents
1. Reconceptualizing Electoral Reform Monique Leyenaar & Reuven Y. Hazan 2. Electoral Reform in Europe since 1945 Alan Renwick 3. The Barriers to Electoral System Reform: A Synthesis of Alternative Approaches Giden Rahat & Reuven Y. Hazan 4. A Conceptual Framework for Major, Minor, and Technical Electoral Reform Kristof Jacobs & Monique Leyenaar 5. The Rise of Gender Quota Laws: Expanding the Spectrum of Determinants for Electoral Reform Karen Celis, Mona Lena Krook & Petra Meier 6. Cultural Explanations of Electoral Reform: A Policy Cycle Model Pippa Norris 7. Electoral reform and Direct Democracy in Canada: When Citizens Become Involved Lawrence LeDuc 8. Party Preferences and Electoral Reform: How Time in Government Affects the Likelihood of Supporting Electoral Change Jean-Benoit Pilet & Damien Bol 9. Democracy as a Cause of Electoral Reform: Jurisprudence and Electoral Change in Canada Richard S. Katz 10. When Electoral Reform Fails: The Stability of Proportional Representation in Post-Communist Democracies Csaba Nikolenyi 11. Veto Players and Electoral Reform in Belgium Marc Hooghe & Kris Deschouwer 12. The Different Trajectories of Italian Electoral Reforms Gianfranco Baldini
About the author
Reuven Y. Hazan is Professor at the Political Science Department of theHebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.
Monique Leyenaar is Professor of Political Science at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Summary
This book addresses why changing the democratic rules of the game has become acceptable after decades of treating electoral systems as fixed elements in stable democracies. This book was published as a special issue of West European Politics.
