[EM] IDEA Handbook/ACE project

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http://www.int-idea.se/publications/system-design.html

has ordering info for

The International IDEA Handbook of Electoral System Design

Much of the Handbook is part of the ACE Project below.
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http://www.aceproject.org/

has the Administration and Cost of Election Project having all sorts of info 
about election systems (especially proportional representation systems).  See 
also
http://www.int-idea.se/aceintro.htm

The more important ACE areas are--

Electoral Systems (see below index)
Boundary Delimitation (regarding district boundaries)
Parties and Candidates
Vote Counting

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Electoral Systems Index

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*Electoral Systems Index 
*Overview 
*Guiding Principles 
*Administrative Considerations 
*Cost Considerations 
*Social and Political Context 
*Historical Review 
*Practical Advice for Electoral System Designers 
*Additional Resources 
*Design Principles 
*Ensuring a Representative Parliament 
*Making Elections Accessible and Meaningful 
*Providing Incentives for Conciliation 
*Facilitating Stable and Efficient Government 
*Holding Government and Representatives Accountable 
*Encouraging Cross-Cutting Political Parties 
*Promoting a Parliamentary Opposition 
*The Process of Choice 
*National Conventions/Constitutional Assemblies 
*Negotiations 
*External Imposition 
*Evolution/Accident 
*Design Components 
*Direct Democracy Options 
*Referendums and Plebiscites 
*Citizen Initiative 
*Legislative Recall 
*Frequency/Date/Day of Elections 
*Parliamentary Size 
*Districting 
*Way of Voting 
*How Votes Become Seats 
*Special Mechanisms 
*Compulsory Voting 
*Minority Provisions 
*Special Mechanisms for Women 
*Majority-Plurality Systems 
*First Past The Post (FPTP) 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Block Vote 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Alternative Vote 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Two-Round System 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Semi-Proportional Systems 
*Parallel 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Limited Vote 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*SNTV 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*PR systems 
*Allocation of Seats 
*List PR 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Mixed Member Proportional 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*Single Transferable Vote 
*Advantages 
*Disadvantages 
*PR Related Issues 
*Thresholds 
*Apparentement 
*Open, Closed and Free Lists 
*District Magnitude 
*The Global Distribution of Electoral Systems 
*Other Types of Elections 
*Presidential Elections 
*First Past the Post 
*Two-Round Systems 
*Preferential Voting 
*Distribution Requirements 
*Upper House Elections 
*Regional and Local Government Elections 
*Country Examples 
*Argentina 
*The Alternative Vote in Australia 
*Bolivia: Electoral Reform in Latin America 
*The Canadian Electoral System: A Case Study 
*Switzerland 
*Chile: Proportionality or Majoritarianism ? 
*Germany: The Original Mixed Member Proportional System 
*Ecuador: The Search for Efficient Representation 
*Spanish Electoral System 
*Finland: Candidate Choice and Party Proportionality 
*Ireland: The Archetypal Single Transferable Vote System 
*Electoral reform in Israel 
*India - First Past the Post on a Grand Scale 
*Jordan - Electoral System Design in the Arab World 
*Japan - Electoral Reform 
*Sri Lanka: Changes to Accommodate Diversity 
*Mali: A Two-Round System in Africa 
*Malta: STV With Some Twists 
*Namibia - National List PR in Southern Africa 
*The Netherlands 
*New Zealand: A Westminster Democracy Switches to PR 
*Papua New Guinea 
*Poland: Between Fragmentation and Polarisation 
*Russia - An Evolving Parallel System 
*Ukraine: Peril of Majoritarianism in New Democracy 
*UK: Electoral System Experimentation in Cradle of FPTP 
*US: Ethnic Minorities and Single-Member Districts 
*South Africa: Election Systems and Conflict Management 
*Electoral Systems End Notes 
*Bibliography 

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date created: 1998/09/01
date modified: 1998/09/21
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