The second novel in The Hogarth Trilogy, in which Hogarth becomes a Dean in his university, learns of an extraordinary story from the war that involves his father, is appointed to assist a Select Committee in Canberra, where he meets an attractive woman, and becomes aware of the intrigue and machinations that mark Australia's becoming involved in the war in Vietnam. The competing demands of politics, principle marriage and attraction mark this most readable novel.
Surveys the dramatic changes in Australian society over the last half century - from the blinkered and conservative British colony' of 1953 to the progressive, confident society we are today.
The Second Chair is a novel of Australian politics, university life and love within and outside marriage, set in the 1960s. It is the first novel in The Hogarth Trilogy, and this is its second edition. Its sequel, Turning Point, was published in 2015, and the third in the series, Nobody's Hero, will be published in 2016.
An electoral system is the most fundamental element of representative democracy, translating citizen's votes into representatives' seats. It is also the most potent practical instrument available to democratic reformers. This systematic and comprehensive study describes and classifies the 70 electoral systems used by 27 democracies - including those of Western Europe, Australia, Canada, the USA, Costa Rica, India, Israel, Japan, and New Zealand - for 384 national legislative and European Parliament elections between 1945 and 1990. Using comparative and statistical analyses of these systems, Arend Lijphart demonstrates the effect of the electoral formula used, the number of representatives elected per district, electoral thresholds, and of five other key features of electoral systems on the proportionality of the election outcome, the degree of multipartism, and the creation of majority parties. In the process he reveals that electoral systems are neither as diversenor as complex as is often assumed. Electoral Systems and Party Systems represents the most definitive treatment of the subject since Rae's classic study in 1967, based as it is on more accurate and comprehensive data (covering more countries and over a longer time span), and using stronger hypotheses and better analytical methods. The unique information and analysis it offers will make it essential reading for everyone working in the field.
Don McNay is a best-selling author, Huffington Post contributor and was an award winning syndicated columnist from 2003 to 2013. He is based in Kentucky and Greater New Orleans. This is a collection of his most highly acclaimed columns and short pieces. www.donmcnay.com
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