Books to Download
THE NEED FOR REFORM:
American elections are in serious trouble. The symptoms are everywhere.
One of the most obvious is our dismal level of voter turnout. While
many other Western democracies routinely enjoy turnout rates of
80%-90%, we are lucky to get half of eligible voters to the polls.
Something is very wrong when most Americans don’t bother to vote most
of the time.Various reforms intended to solve our election problems have been suggested, including voter registration efforts, campaign finance reform, and term limits. Recently, however, another proposal has been getting increasing attention: switching from our traditional winner-take-all voting system to one of a number of full representation election systems — sometimes known as proportional representation systems or PR.
In this book, Prof. Douglas Amy makes the case for improving American elections with proportional voting systems.
[Download Douglas Amy's Book - .pdf 237 KB]
Millennial Manifesto book touts IRV and full representation: Scott Beale of MillennialPolitics.Com has written a youth activist handbook that examines the issues, individuals, and organizations that are shaping the modern youth movement. This chapter highlights instant runoff voting and full representation a political reform agenda.
Overruling Democracy, Jamie Raskin (Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., 2003) Read extracts on proportional representation and instant runoff voting.