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Summary: Refreshing persectives
Review: This book offers a very easy to read review of one important approach to electoral engineering. In doing so we can only hope that some of the now traditional (and rather stodgy) perspecives of dehumanised mathematical proportionality, so powerful in recent decades, may finally enjoy a little intellectual competition. The historical revelations on the experiences (warts and all) of alternative voting in many regions of the world, especially in PNG as well as some of the real-politik motives for its ultimate endorsement in Australia a century ago is revealing. Finally the easy to understand description of assorted variants to the family of alternative voting systems offers a practical guide to those societies struggling to develop a system of representation which provides useful dis-incentives to extremism, political exclusivism (boutique partyism) and party fragmentation while reducing the incentive to elite bargaining and out of public control horse-trading that takes place after elections instead of before them. All in all a most interesting read.
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