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‘The disadvantage of free elections’, V. M. Molotov (the Soviet Foreign Minister in 1946) remarked to Ernest Bevin, ‘is that you can never be sure who is going to win them.’
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Notes and References
See C. Seymour, Electoral Reform in England and Wales (New Haven, 1915);
H. L. Morris, Parliamentary Franchise Reform in England from 1885 to 1918 (New York, 1921);
D. E. Butler, The Electoral System in Britain since 1918 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963).
See Bill Jones, Dennis Kavanagh, Michael Moran and Philip Norton, Politics UK, 5th edition (Harlow: Longman, 2004)
or Gillian Peele, Governing the UK, 4th edition (Oxford: Blackwell’s Publishing, 2004).
See Vernon Bogdanor and David Butler (eds), Democracy and Elections: Electoral Systems and their Political Consequences (Cambridge University Press, 1983);
Dick Leonard and Richard Natkiel, World Atlas of Elections (London: Economist Publishing Company, 1986);
Bernard Grofman and Arend Lijphart (eds), Electoral Laws and their Political Consequences (New York: Agathon Press, 1986).
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Leonard, D., Mortimore, R. (2005). Introduction. In: Elections in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230511514_1
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