Bücher von Peter Emerson

By comparing the many voting procedures used in democratic decision-making, it explains why win-or-lose binary voting can be inaccurate and divisive, while the more inclusive preferential points system of voting can be so much more accurate and, therefore, more democratic;

This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people.

This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. Through this extended example, the book demonstrates the power of narrative analytic procedures and the different effects produced by different levels of analysis.

This book probes the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used - or not - in decision-making in society and in elected bodies; in elections to and within such chambers; and in the resulting forms of governance.