 | Howard Rae Penniman, Brian Farrell - 1987 - 296 σελίδες
...strong support after 1850 from John Stuart Mill who wrote that its advantages "place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." 2 Mill also argued for adoption of STV in the House of Commons. In spite of more than a century of... | |
 | John Cunningham Wood - 1991 - 676 σελίδες
...representation through the method of preferential voting, as devised by Thomas Hare, Mill saw one of "the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government. "26 By giving both to the majority and to the minority representation in proportion to their numbers,... | |
 | Iain McLean, Arnold B. Urken, Fiona Hewitt - 1995 - 392 σελίδες
...Stuart Mill. 1n chapter 7 of his Considerations on Representative Government, Mill calls the Hare scheme "among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government" (Mill [1861] 1972. 263). Mill was briefly a Member of Parliament during the debates on the Reform Bills... | |
 | Dennis C. Mueller Professor of Economics University of Vienna - 1996 - 398 σελίδες
...transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the...proportion to numbers, of every division of the electoral body—not two great parties alone, with perhaps a few large sectional minorities in particular places,... | |
 | Kathleen L. Barber - 2000 - 236 σελίδες
...proportional representation by single transferable vote, which was patterned on Thomas Hill's earlier work, "among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government" ([1861] 1962, 151). 9 Mill knew of other electoral "expediencies," voting systems that would allow... | |
 | Ben Reilly - 2001 - 236 σελίδες
...impracticalities, Hare's scheme was publicly championed by his mentor John Stuart Mill, who called it 'among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government' (quoted in McLean and Urken 1995, 46). Mill was so enamoured of Hare's proposal that he wrote that... | |
 | Nadia Urbinati - 2002 - 306 σελίδες
...themselves differently under a proportional counting. In Mill's words, proportional representation "secures a representation, in proportion to numbers,...of the electoral body: not two great parties alone" (CW 19:455). 11. Mill's "expressive" interpretation of political representation has been stressed recently... | |
 | Jonathan K. Hodge - 244 σελίδες
...transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare 's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government. verify that it satisfies the desirable properties that we've been so interested in. But let's not get... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 σελίδες
...contribute to bring into Parliament a member of his own." According to JS Mill, proportional representation is "among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." Its merit is that it secures representation even to the smallest minority. It gives every voter a real... | |
 | Canadian Institute - 1892 - 392 σελίδες
...transcendent advantages. Such, and so numerous are these, that in my conviction they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." It is not a little remarkable that a Danish statesman, Mr. Andrae, should have arrived at the same... | |
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I venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme, and its transcendent advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that, in my conviction, they place Mr. Hare's plan among the very greatest improvements yet made in... 
