The Politics of Electoral Systems, Michael Gallagher and Paul Mitchell, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. xxvi, 662.

The Politics of Electoral Systems is the most recent and thorough work currently available on electoral systems. There is, of course, The Handbook of Electoral Choice (Josep M. Colomer, ed., London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004) but this work focuses more specifically on the issue of electoral reform in relation to democratization. The Politics of Electoral Systems covers a wide variety of electoral systems from theoretical and empirical perspectives—and it does so excellently. This brand new work is destined to become no less than the bible of electoral systems.