good book. concise with varying viewpoints.

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	• Reflecting All of Us: The Case for Proportional Representation (New Democracy Forum Series) Robert Richie, Steven Hill, ... Beacon Press, 1999 - 96 pages average customer review:based on 3 reviews view larger image
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what an amazing idea

This is a great book for people who are frustrated with the state of American politics. After watching campaign finance reform fail again and again, I was immediately won over to the authors' ideas. Proportional Representation is the only way to go!

Very, very, interesting

This book is extremely interesting, I highly recommend it. Richie and Hill make a strong case for Proportional Representation, then a number of other high level type folks respond. Then Richie and Hill respond. A fascinating dialogue.

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good book. concise with varying viewpoints.

Good book - concise and with varying viewpoints. Mirkarimi comments that you don't focus enough on the mechanics of the change, but in a sense, a book like this does, since it isn't an intimidating tome. I plan to buy a stack to pass out to skeptical friends.

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A lively dialogue on the power of electoral reform to strengthen our democratic institutions

Scholars, critics, reformers, politicians, and activists have for years asked why Americans are so uninvolved in the political process. Minority underrepresentation, the marginalization of progressive voices, the exclusion of the poor?these and other serious problems appear everywhere, from the pages of national newspapers to MTV.
Robert Richie and Steven Hill offer a powerful solution, one currently in practice in many parts of the world, including places in the U.S.: proportional representation. They demonstrate that unlike the winner-takes-all system, which always leaves the losers completely unrepresented, proportional representation gives all points of view a political voice; it works by giving citizens multiple votes or the right to vote for more than one candidate, or by giving political parties power according to percentages of votes received.

Esteemed thinkers?Cynthia McKinney, John Ferejohn, E. Joshua Rosenkrantz, Gary W. Cox, Daniel Cantor, Ross Mirkarimi, Anthony Thig penn, and Pamela S. Karlan?respond in essays discussing the forms proportional representation could take to operate best in the U.S. Their contributions underscore the concept at the heart of this book: the more people invested in the political process, the more democratic?and reflective of all of us?our system becomes.

NEW DEMOCRACY FORUM
A series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. The series editors (for Boston Review), Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers, aim to foster politically engaged, intellectually honest, and morally serious debate about fundamental issues?both on and off the agenda of conventional politics.

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