government is good

yes

5 (71.4%)

no

1 (14.3%)

maybe

1 (14.3%)

Total Members Voted: 5

[soliscjw]

Douglas Amy
Skinner Hall, Room 110
413-538-2667

[anarchir]

wat

[The ghost of a ghost of a ghost]

Douglas Amy, oh yeah, who the fuck is that?

[anarchir]

Douglas Amy is a leading expert on electoral voting systems, including proportional representation, redistricting issues in the United States, and the plight of third party candidacies. Behind the Ballot Box: A Citizen's Guide to Voting Systems, Amy's latest book, spells out the political advantages and disadvantages associated with the voting systems used in Western democracies. Published in October, 2000, Behind the Ballot Box also provides the analytical tools needed to compare and contrast the choices among these voting systems.

Amy is also the author of Real Choices, New Voices: How Proportional Representation Elections Could Revitalize American Democracy—the only current book concerning the United States and proportional representation, an electoral system that most Western democracies use. (The book came out in a second edition in the fall of 2002.) The system places officials in office according to the proportion of the vote won by their parties in large, multimember districts. Amy argues in Real Choices, New Voices that proportional representation offers a solution to the growing discontent felt among many American voters.

Prior to his interest in electoral systems, Amy concentrated on environmental mediation and policy analysis. In 1987 he published The Politics of Environmental Mediation.