Secrecy and publicity in votes and debates

In the spirit of Jeremy Bentham's 'Political Tactics', this volume offers the first comprehensive discussion of the effects of secrecy and publicity on debates and votes in committees and assemblies. The contributors - sociologists, political scientists, historians, legal scholars - c...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Elster, Jon, 1940- (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press 2015.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Public voting and political modernization : different views from the 19th century and new ideas to modernize voting procedures / Hubertus Buchstein
  • Semi-public voting at the Constituante / Jon Elster and Arnaud le Pillouer
  • The introduction of the vote by ballot in the election of the syndics of the Republic of Geneva (1707) / Raphael Barat
  • Suffrage and voting secrecy in general elections / Adam Przeworski
  • Secret voting in the Italian Parliament / Daniela Giannetti
  • Open decision-making procedures and public legitimacy : an inventory of causal mechanisms / Jenny de Fine Licht and Daniel Naurin
  • How publicity creates opacity : what happens when EU ministers vote publicly / Stephanie Novak
  • Secret-public voting in FDA advisory committees / Philippe Urfalino and Pascaline Costa
  • Disclosed and undisclosed vote in constitutional/supreme courts / Pasquale Pasquino
  • Why open voting in general elections is undesirable / Barnard Manin
  • Open-secret voting / Adrian Vermeule
  • Secret votes and secret talk / John Ferejohn.