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Real Choices / New Voices: How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy

Douglas J. Amy

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1. Fair Representation for All2. Solving the Redistricting Problem3. Improving Election Campaigns4. Toward a Multiparty System5. Electing More Women6.Fair Representation for Racial and Ethnic Minorities7. Encouraging Voter Turnout8. PR: A Different and Better Kind of Democracy9.Objections to Proportional Representation10.Versions of Electoral Reform for the United States11.The Political Prospects for PR in the United StatesAppendix A. Seat Allocation Formulas in Proportional RepresentationAppendix B. Vote Counting and Ballot Transfer in the Single Transferable VoteAppendix C. The Forgotten History of Proportional Representation in the United StatesSelected BibliographyAdditional Resources on the World Wide Web

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Key concepts: Redistricting, Proportional representation, Ballot, Representation (politics), Democracy, Political science, Politics, Turnout