How democracies vote: a study of majority and proportional electoral system

This volume is dedicated to the memory of one who devoted his life to securing justice this, John H. Humphreys gave up his own career in the Civil Service and its prospects. Over the long years he made a detailed and world-wide study of the various electoral systems of parliamentary and local government. His unrivalled knowledge was freely placed at the service of others, whether they shared his views or not.
The underlying inspiration of his life work was a deep faith in the moral basis of democracy, by which political institutions, with their methods. and systems, must be tried and judged. Believing in fair play for all of sincere convictions, alike for opponents and those with whose views he united, he sought to test methods of representation by the extent to which they secured this fair play. He saw in the use of the single transferable vote the best way by which just representation can be secured to all sections of a democratic community, a way by which even a small minority of citizens may make their vote effective.