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  • The Punters’ Guide to Democracy
    Peter Emerson
    This book discusses multiple ways of voting in a democratic system and explains the basis of more consensual politics. Without delving into too much technical argument or too many mathematical examples, it aims to show that binary decision-making is blunt, primitive, divisive, and sometimes inaccurate; prove that other methodologies are more accurate and, therefore,...
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    37,51 €

  • The Punters’ Guide to Democracy
    Peter Emerson
    This book discusses multiple ways of voting in a democratic system and explains the basis of more consensual politics. Without delving into too much technical argument or too many mathematical examples, it aims to show that binary decision-making is blunt, primitive, divisive, and sometimes inaccurate; prove that other methodologies are more accurate and, therefore,...
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    48,38 €

  • Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism
    Peter Emerson
    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. Based on the author’s first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued to be a catalyst of populism and its divisive outcomes have prompted countless disputes throughout Europe and ...
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    80,86 €

  • Democratic Decision-making
    Peter Emerson
    This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions. 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 syst...
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    67,04 €

  • Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism
    Peter Emerson
    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. Based on the author’s first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued to be a catalyst of populism and its divisive outcomes have prompted countless disputes throughout Europe and ...
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    110,25 €

  • From Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics
    Peter Emerson
    This book discusses voting procedures in collective decision-making. Drawing on well-established election processes from all over the world, the author presents a voting procedure that allows for the speedy but fair election of a proportional, all-party coalition. The methodology - a matrix vote - is accurate, robust and ethno-color blind. In the vote, the counting procedure en...
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    68,26 €

  • From Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics
    Peter Emerson
    This book discusses voting procedures in collective decision-making. Drawing on well-established election processes from all over the world, the author presents a voting procedure that allows for the speedy but fair election of a proportional, all-party coalition. The methodology - a matrix vote - is accurate, robust and ethno-color blind. In the vote, the counting procedure en...
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    66,89 €

  • Strategy and Politics
    Emerson Niou / Peter C. Ordeshook
    Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. ...
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    314,50 €

  • Strategy and Politics
    Emerson Niou / Peter C. Ordeshook
    Strategy and Politics: An Introduction to Game Theory is designed to introduce students to the application of game theory to modeling political processes. ...
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    169,76 €

  • Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy
    Peter Emerson
    This book describes the voting procedures by which majority rule may be replaced by a more consensual system of governance. In a word, such an inclusive polity can be achieved by asking the voters or, more usually, their representatives in councils and parliaments, to state their preferences, so to facilitate the identification of that option which gains the highest average pre...
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    134,34 €

  • Defining Democracy
    Peter Emerson
    Foreword by Professor Arend Lijphart.- Part I: Decision-Making.- 1 The Myths of Majority Rule.- 2 Pluralist Decision-Maing.- Part II: Elections.- 3 'Party-ocracies'.- 4 The Candid Candidate.- Part III: The Art of Governance.- 5 The Elected Dictator.- 6 Governance.- Appendices.- Chronology.- References.- Index. ...
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    169,77 €

  • Scars and Stripes
    Peter Newell / Porter Emerson Browne
    Scars and Stripes, a humorous look at the American military experience during World War I, is a collection of comic strips and cartoons originally published during the war. Penned by Porter Emerson Browne and illustrated by Peter Newell, the work captures the spirit of the era through light-hearted and patriotic perspectives. The cartoons offer a glimpse into the daily lives an...
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    23,19 €

  • On English Lagoons
    Peter Henry Emerson
    ''On English Lagoons'' is a travelogue written by Peter Henry Emerson in 1893. The book recounts the author’s journey with a friend, both amateur wherrymen, as they navigate the rivers and broads of Norfolk and Suffolk in England. The book offers a detailed account of the landscape, wildlife, and local culture, as well as the challenges and rewards of navigating the waterways i...
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    35,39 €

  • Birds, Beasts And Fishes Of The Norfolk Broadland (1895)
    Peter Henry Emerson
    ''Birds, Beasts And Fishes Of The Norfolk Broadland'' is a book written by Peter Henry Emerson and published in 1895. The book provides a comprehensive description of the wildlife found in the Norfolk Broadland region of England. It covers a wide range of species including birds, mammals, fish, and insects. The author provides detailed information on the habitat, behavior, and ...
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    42,79 €

  • Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology
    Peter Emerson / Stephen Frosh
    This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different ’levels’. These focus on narrative texts from a boy labelled as ’sexually abusive’, analyzed seqentially from micro- to more global levels. Through this ex...
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    134,39 €

  • Naturalistic Photography For Students Of The Art (1889)
    Peter H. Emerson / Peter HEmerson
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    34,36 €

  • Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy
    Peter Emerson
    Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy.- Collective Decision-making The Modified Borda Count, MBC.- A Pluralist Parliament for a Plural Society The Quota Borda System, QBS.- Electing a Power-sharing Executive The Matrix Vote.- The Art or Science of Manipulation.- A Critique.- The Theory of Voting and the Borda Systems.- Assessing Borda’s Rule and Its Modifications.- Human Rights ...
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    134,34 €

  • The Balance of Power
    Emerson M. S. Niou / Emerson MSNiou / Gregory F. Rose / Gregory FRose / Peter Ordeshook
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    60,03 €

  • Critical Narrative Analysis in Psychology
    Peter Emerson / Stephen Frosh
    This book presents an approach to narrative analysis from a critical social perspective. It describes the background to discursive and narrative approaches and then takes the reader through a variety of analysis at different 'levels'. These focus on narrative texts from a boy labelled as 'sexually abusive', analyzed seqentially from micro- to more global levels. Through this ex...
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    133,10 €

  • Severe Learning Disabilities and Challenging Behaviours
    Eric Emerson / Jim Mansell / Peter McGill
    This is a timely book. The question of how to help people with challenging behaviour -and how to design and manage services so that staff, families and users feel that what should be done is being done - is at the top of the agenda. Failure to deal com­ petently with the issue results in disaffection, poor quality ser­ vices and a less than optimal qu...
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    66,04 €

  • The Balance of Power
    Emerson M. Niou / Emerson MNiou / Gregory F. Rose / Gregory FRose / Peter C. Ordeshook / Peter COrdeshook
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    176,73 €