List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Forcing Reform onto a Two-Party System
1.1 On party lists and "vote leakage"
1.2 A shifting-coalitions theory of reform
1.3 Comparing the American reform path
1.4 Plan of book
2. Party Government and Electoral Reform
2.1 Definitions
2.2 The logic of party government
2.3 Shifting coalitions, three kinds of reform
2.4 The reform coalition shapes the rules
2.5 The rules affect how you govern
2.6 Recap
3. From More Parties to No Parties
3.1 Mugwumps versus left parties, 1893-1913
3.2 The menu of proportional systems
3.3 Party lists get their test
3.4 The Model City Charter emerges
3.5 Recap
4. Spreading the Reform Template
4.1 Coalition-realigning STV adoption
4.2 Plurality charter adoption
4.3 Different reforms in three New England cities
4.4 Sources of party disunity
4.5 Recap
5. Rediscovering Party Government
5.1 Chaos in Cleveland, Cincinnati solution
5.2 Lessons learned at the top
5.3 Incidence of good-government slates
5.4 Recap
6. The Price of Coalition
6.1 Electoral systems and public spending
6.2 Spending in three types of cities, 1930-60
6.3 At-large election, local representation
6.4 Seeds of destruction?
6.5 Recap
7. Legislative Limbo, Polarizing Repeal
7.1 Illustrating legislative limbo
7.2 Cincinnati, 1925-57
7.3 New York City, 1937-47
7.4 Worcester, 1949-60
7.5 Stopping the leak in Cambridge, 1941-69
7.6 Conclusion and notes on other cases
7.7 Recap
8. More Parties or No Parties?
8.1 Summary of core points
8.2 Prospects for a proportional U.S. House
8.3 Back to the future?
8.4 Making reform work
Appendix A: Repeal Coalitions and Candidate Entry
A.1 Cincinnati
A.2 New York City
A.3 Worcester
Bibliography
Index.