Electoral system reviews in New Zealand, Britain and Canada: A critical comparison

Government and Opposition

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 471-490

  Lundberg, Thomas Carl ^a  

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EID: 34548643492     PISSN: 0017257X     EISSN: 14777053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-7053.2007.00232.x     Document Type: Article

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2. Ibid., pp. 17-18.
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8. Ibid., para. 2.1.
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10. See, for example, Matthew Soberg Shugart and Martin P. Wattenberg (eds), Mixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds?, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001; and Arend Lijphart, Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries, New Haven, CT, Yale University Press, 1999.
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21. Ibid., p. 254.
22. Ibid., p. 266.
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33. BC Citizens' Assembly, Final Report, p. 1.
34. BC Citizens' Assembly, Making Every Vote Count: The Case for Electoral Reform in British Columbia, Technical Report, Victoria, 2004, p. 92.
35. BC Citizens' Assembly, Final Report, p. 6.
36. Ibid., p. 5.
37. Ibid.
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