In the modern era, representation is the hallmark of democracy, and electoral rules structure how representation works and how effectively governments perform.

This book presents a collection of papers illustrating the variety of "experimental" methodologies used to study voting. Experimental methods include laboratory

In the early 1990s, major electoral reforms took place in both Italy and Japan; each replaced a form of “proportional representation” (in which voters cast

This book presents a new democratic theory of election reform, using the tradition of political realism to interrogate and synthesize findings from global elect

With approval voting, voters can approve of as many candidates as they want, and the one approved by the most voters wins. This book surveys a wide variety of e