 | Howard Rae Penniman, Brian Farrell - 1987 - 296 Seiten
...Britain STV received 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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...citizens (Humes & Martin, 1969, pp. 85-89). 8 Representative Democracy: Proportional Representation The more these works are studied, the stronger, I...yet made in the theory and practice of government. In the first place, it secures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the... | |
 | Ben Reilly - 2001 - 236 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Kathleen L. Barber - 2000 - 236 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Jonathan K. Hodge - 244 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Alan D. Taylor - 2005 - 196 Seiten
..."single transferable vote system." In 1862, John Stuart Mill (Mill, 1862) spoke of it as being "among the greatest improvements yet made in the theory and practice of government." It is currently used to elect public officials in Australia, Malta, the Republic of Ireland, and Northern... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 2006 - 414 Seiten
...venture to predict, will be the impression of the perfect feasibility of the scheme, and its transcendant advantages. Such and so numerous are these, that,...yet made in the theory and practice of government. In the first place, it secures a representation, in proportion to numbers, of every division of the... | |
 | VD Mahajan - 2006 - 936 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
