Embodying Democracy: Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe

✍ Scribed by Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Leaves: 255
Series: One Europe or Several?
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Explaining the Design and Redesign of Electoral Systems....Pages 1-24
Poland: Experimenting with the Electoral System....Pages 25-47
Hungary: the Politics of Negotiated Design....Pages 48-66
The Czech and Slovak Republics: the Surprising Resilience of Proportional Representation....Pages 67-89
Romania: Stability without Consensus....Pages 90-108
Bulgaria: Engineering Legitimacy through Electoral System Design....Pages 109-127
Russia: the Limits of Electoral Engineering....Pages 128-142
Ukraine: the Struggle for Democratic Change....Pages 143-163
Conclusion: Embodying Democracy....Pages 164-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-241

✦ Subjects

European Politics; European Union Politics; Democracy; Electoral Politics; Political Theory

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