Recommended reading

All the following titles will be of interest to electoral reformers, but please note: with the exception of our own publications, LCER does not necessarily endorse the content of any publications on this list.

Reports available online

• The Many, Not the Few: Proportional Representation and Labour in the 21st Century (2017, Second Edition) published by LCER and Make Votes Matter
• Politics for the Many: The Trade Union Case for Political Reform (April 2018) published by Politics for the Many 
• Reversing Labour Retreat: the Challenge and Change of Electoral Reform (2007) by John Denham and others, published by LCER
• Getting it in Proportion: Trade Unions and Electoral Reform (revised edition, 2016) TUC, Touchstone Extras
• The Electoral System and British Politics (2019) David Klemperer, for the Constitution Society
• Peterloo 200: The Path to Proportional Representation (2019) Owen Winter, published by LCER and Make Votes Matter.
  

Relating to the British  system

• Cook, R. (2003). Where Do We Go From Here? Chapter 9 in Point of Departure: Diaries from the Front Bench. Simon & Schuster. (ISBN: 0-7432-5255-1)
• Bogdanor, V. (1984). What is proportional representation? Martin Robertson & Company Ltd.: Oxford.
• Pike, M.S. (2018). The Value of Your Vote: The Case for Electoral Reform in the United Kingdom. ISBN-13: 978-1979838986
• Kuper, R. (1990). Electing for Democracy: Proportional Representation and the Left. Socialist Society.  (ISBN: 9781872481050)

• Linton, M., & Southcott, M. (1998). Making Votes Count: The Case for Electoral Reform. Profile Books.(ISBN: 9781861970879)
  Contact LCER to request a discounted copy (£5, free P&P).
  
• Lundberg, T.C. (2007). Proportional Representation and the Constituency Role in Britain. Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0230006522

Textbooks and articles in academic journals

• Amy, D. J. (2000)  Beind the Ballot Box: A Citizen's Guide to Voting Systems Greenwood Publishing Group.
• Colomer, J. (Ed.). (2016). The handbook of electoral system choice. Springer.
• Farrell, D. M. (2011). Electoral systems: a comparative introduction. Macmillan International Higher Education.

• Lijphart, A. (2012). Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-six Countries. Yale University Press. (ISBN 978-0300172027)

• Dummett, M. (1997). Principles of Electoral Reform. OUP. 

• Rossiter, D., and others (1999). Changing biases in the operation of the UK's electoral system, 1950–97. BritJPIR, 1(2), 133-164.

• Curtice, J., & Steed, M. (1982). Electoral choice and the production of government: the changing operation of the electoral system in the United Kingdom since 1955. BritJPS, 12(3), 249-298.

• Curtice, J., & Steed, M. (1986). Proportionality and exaggeration in the British electoral system. Electoral Studies, 5(3), 209-228.

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