The first scholarly history of proportional representation
Proportional Representation
Critics of the British Electoral System 1820-1945
Jenifer Hart
Price: £64.00 (hardback)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-820136-6
Publication date: 13 February 1992
320 pages, 216x138 mm
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| - ''Janifer Hart's book is a historical tract for the times, which will help inform the continuing debate on what we might learn to call 'fair voting'.'
Philip Williamson, The Political Quarterly, Volume 63, No. 4, October-December 1992' -
- '`It is rare for a book to deserve the word "definitive", but Jenifer Hart's history of the advocacy of proportional representation earns the description. She has written a very thorough, painstaking account of the many attempts top convince the British people and the British Parliament that 'the-first-past-the-post' method of determining the winner of an election is not consistent with
democracy.'
Utilitas, Vol. 5, No. 2, November 1993' -
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| Description | This is the first scholarly history of the proportional representation movement. Jenifer Hart explores its origins in the early nineteenth century and analyses the contribution of political thinkers such as Thomas Hare and John Stuart Mill. She traces the history of the early campaigns, and the progress and vicissitudes of the cause during the twentieth century. A final chapter takes the
account up to the present day.
Based on extensive research, this is an accessible and comprehensive study which throws light on many of the questions which bedevil contemporary political commentators. Mrs Hart demonstrates the inadequacy of the commonly made identification of proportional representation with liberalism, and explains the failure of its supporters to achieve its adoption in
the UK, with the exception of Northern Ireland. Her book makes an important contribution to British constitutional history and to current debates on electoral reform. |
| Authors, editors,
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Jenifer Hart, Emeritus Fellow, St Anne's College, Oxford
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