When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform

When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-224

  Fournier, Patrick ^a   Van der Kolk, Henk ^b   Carty, R Kenneth ^c   Blais, André ^a   Rose, Jonathan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Assembly; Citizen; Deliberation; Democracy; Democratic experiment; Electoral system; Participation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857859057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567843.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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