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- catalog abstract ""The United States is one of very few democracies in the world to use winner-take-all elections to choose representatives for legislatures, city councils, and even most school boards. A typical American election occurs in a single-member district or ward, where the candidate with the most votes wins, whether chosen by a majority or, in a multicandidate race, by only a plurality of voters." "From this practice stems the endemic underrepresentation of minorities in our political life. Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has led to increased minority electoral success, but the strategy most commonly used - creation of majority-minority districts - has come under attack in the Supreme Court." "Alternative voting methods - cumulative voting, limited voting, instant run-off, and several varieties of proportional representation - are gaining acceptance in the United States, but are not widely understood. In this book, an outgrowth of her earlier Proportional Representation and Electoral Reform in Ohio, Kathleen L. Barber explores their origins, explains their use and adaptability, and supplies empirical evidence of how they actually work in practice." "The increasing diversity of the American population in the twenty-first century makes the issue of representation a compelling one, as the nation seeks to integrate into its political life an ever-widening array of groups. Barber argues that the right to vote is the right to cast an effective vote, which in turn generates the right to representation."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b11933342.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""The United States is one of very few democracies in the world to use winner-take-all elections to choose representatives for legislatures, city councils, and even most school boards. A typical American election occurs in a single-member district or ward, where the candidate with the most votes wins, whether chosen by a majority or, in a multicandidate race, by only a plurality of voters." "From this practice stems the endemic underrepresentation of minorities in our political life. Enforcement of the Voting Rights Act has led to increased minority electoral success, but the strategy most commonly used - creation of majority-minority districts - has come under attack in the Supreme Court." "Alternative voting methods - cumulative voting, limited voting, instant run-off, and several varieties of proportional representation - are gaining acceptance in the United States, but are not widely understood. In this book, an outgrowth of her earlier Proportional Representation and Electoral Reform in Ohio, Kathleen L. Barber explores their origins, explains their use and adaptability, and supplies empirical evidence of how they actually work in practice." "The increasing diversity of the American population in the twenty-first century makes the issue of representation a compelling one, as the nation seeks to integrate into its political life an ever-widening array of groups. Barber argues that the right to vote is the right to cast an effective vote, which in turn generates the right to representation."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-195) and index.".
- catalog description "Inventing election systems -- The progressive crusade for proportional representation -- How and why proportional election systems work -- Tales of five cities -- The voting rights act and the right to representation.".
- catalog extent "xv, 211 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Right to representation.".
- catalog identifier "0814208541 (cloth)".
- catalog identifier "0814250580 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Right to representation.".
- catalog isPartOf "Urban life and urban landscape series".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Columbus : Ohio State University Press,".
- catalog relation "Right to representation.".
- catalog subject "328.3/347 21".
- catalog subject "JF1071 .B37 2001".
- catalog subject "Proportional representation.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Inventing election systems -- The progressive crusade for proportional representation -- How and why proportional election systems work -- Tales of five cities -- The voting rights act and the right to representation.".
- catalog title "A right to representation : proportional election systems for the twenty-first century / Kathleen L. Barber.".
- catalog type "text".