What Are Elections For? : (Record no. 13734)
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| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
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| fixed length control field | 051004s2005 xx ||||gr |0|| 0 eng d |
| 999 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBERS (KOHA) | |
| Koha Dewey Subclass [OBSOLETE] | PHL2MARC21 1.1 |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | McDONALD, Michael D.; MENDES, Silvia M.; BUDGE, Ian |
| 9 (RLIN) | 21969 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | What Are Elections For? : |
| Remainder of title | conferring the median mandate |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc. | Cambridge : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | January 2004 |
| 520 3# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Democracy is often described as a system in which a mojority of electors choose one out of a number of competing parties to from a government and carry out its programme. Unfortunately, spontaneous majorities rarely form in support of one party. We generalize from a 'government' to a 'median' mandate, in which the median elector chooses the pivotal party in parliament, which then translaters his or her preferences into public policy. To check this we investigate how accurately parliaments and governments represent the left-right position of the median voter in each of twenty parliamentary democracies. Distortions depend on the type of electoral arrangement, being relatvely smaller under proportional representation than under single-member districts. Distortions do not equate to biased representation, however. Once we consider how distortions at one step or one time are compensated by distortions in the opposite direction at another, overall representation of the median voter position is reasonably accurate |
| 773 08 - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Title | British Journal of Political Science |
| Related parts | 34, 1, p. 1-26 |
| Place, publisher, and date of publication | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, January 2004 |
| International Standard Serial Number | ISSN 0007-1234 |
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| Koha item type | Periódico |
| 998 ## - LOCAL CONTROL INFORMATION (RLIN) | |
| -- | 20051004 |
| Operator's initials, OID (RLIN) | 1546^b |
| Cataloger's initials, CIN (RLIN) | Analuiza |
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