Democracy in divided societies electoral engineering for conflict management
Reilly, Ben.
Democracy in divided societies electoral engineering for conflict management - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001 - xiii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-214) and index.
Reilly analyzes the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies which utilize "vote-pooling" electoral systems--including Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Fiji. He shows that political institutions which encourage the development of broad-based, aggregative political parties and where campaigning politicians have incentives to attract votes from a range of ethnic groups can, under certain conditions, encourage a moderate, accommodatory political competition and thus influence the trajectory of democratization in transitional states. This is a challenge to orthodox approaches to democracy and conflict management.
9780521797306
Elections--Case studies.
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Democracy in divided societies electoral engineering for conflict management - Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001 - xiii, 217 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 194-214) and index.
Reilly analyzes the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies which utilize "vote-pooling" electoral systems--including Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Fiji. He shows that political institutions which encourage the development of broad-based, aggregative political parties and where campaigning politicians have incentives to attract votes from a range of ethnic groups can, under certain conditions, encourage a moderate, accommodatory political competition and thus influence the trajectory of democratization in transitional states. This is a challenge to orthodox approaches to democracy and conflict management.
9780521797306
Elections--Case studies.
324.6/3