Comparative Election LawGardner, James A. This timely research handbook offers a systematic and comprehensive examination of the election laws of democratic nations. Through a study of a range of different regimes of election law, it illuminates the disparate choices that societies have made concerning the benefits they wish their democratic institutions to provide, the means by which such benefits are to be delivered, and the underlying values, commitments, and conceptions of democratic self-rule that inform these choices. |
Contents
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3 Comparative election law in Canada | 32 |
PART II PROBLEMS OF THE DEMOS | 50 |
4 Representation in federations | 51 |
5 Indigenous peoples and electoral law | 71 |
subnational challenges to democratic theory | 90 |
voter qualification laws in comparative perspective | 272 |
16 Disenfranchisement due to crime | 290 |
PART V CANDIDATES | 304 |
17 Qualifications to be an elected representative | 305 |
18 A constitutional perspective on electoral gender quotas | 322 |
19 Designing and protecting presidential term limits | 344 |
PART VI CAMPAIGN SPEECH AND FINANCE | 368 |
a lesson from the AngloAmerican divide | 369 |
constitutional firewalls and an emerging accommodational paradigm | 115 |
PART III INSTITUTIONS AND STRUCTURES | 139 |
8 Electoral systems and conceptions of politics | 140 |
the emerging model | 158 |
private associations or public utilities? | 177 |
11 Why representative democracy requires referendums | 193 |
12 The role of deliberative peace referendums in the constitutional settlement of conflict | 212 |
PART IV VOTING | 235 |
a view from the Americas | 236 |
a Latin American perspective 18101985 | 250 |
21 Campaign finance and electoral speech in the media | 388 |
from electoral integrity to democratic integrity | 410 |
PART VII ADMINISTRATION | 435 |
a legal perspective on electoral institutions | 436 |
24 Depoliticizing redistricting | 459 |
CONCLUSION | 477 |
inequality corruption and climate change rethinking election law in the twentyfirst century | 478 |
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