Australia: Replacing plurality rule with majority-preferential voting

The Handbook of Electoral System Choice

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 475-486

  Sawer, Marian ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 85016341943     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1057/9780230522749     Document Type: Chapter

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