The politics of electoral reform in Central Europe since 1989 : the temptation of the incumbents / Jakub Charvát.
Charvát, Jakub, 1985- author.
2023
JN96.A95
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Title The politics of electoral reform in Central Europe since 1989 : the temptation of the incumbents / Jakub Charvát.
Author Charvát, Jakub, 1985- author.
ISBN 9783031450839 (electronic bk.)
3031450833 (electronic bk.)
9783031450822
3031450825
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45083-9
Published Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 166 pages).
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-45083-9 doi
Call Number JN96.A95
Dewey Decimal Classification 324.6/30943
Summary This book on the politics of electoral reform in Central Europe since 1989 explains by whom, why, and how the electoral rules were changed in Central Europe in the post-Communist period. Examining the contextual factors affecting, underlying, and/or initiating these changes, the book identifies main actors, their motivations, and other circumstances surrounding the electoral reform processes. It further explores their political consequences, particularly on proportionality and personalization. Based on a detailed analysis of electoral reform processes in Czechoslovakia, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia over the past thirty years, the book discusses how the politics of electoral reform in Central Europe is mostly driven, controlled, and decided by politicians, with other actors being either overlooked or ignored. Finally, it argues that most of the cases were imposed by an elite majority, with the sole exception of the Czech Republic, where the politics of electoral reform were influenced by the intervention of the constitutional court as an external actor. The book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political science interested in a better understanding of electoral politics in general, as well as democratic transformation processes and electoral reform in Central Europe.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 21, 2023).
Series Springer series in electoral politics.
Available in Other Form Print version: 9783031450822
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Chapter 1. Introduction
Part I. The Politics of Electoral Reform: A Framework for Analysis
Chapter 2. Electoral System Change: A Theoretical Perspective
Chapter 3. Political Consequences of Electoral Reforms: Proportionality and Personalisation
Part II. Electoral Systems under Re/Construction: What Electoral Systems for new Democracies?
Chapter 4. The Most Complex Electoral System as a Compromise: The Hungarian Negotiations of 1989
Chapter 5. The Politics of Electoral Reform as a Dispute over the Role of Parties: Czechoslovak Debates in the Early 1990s
Part III. Cuius regio, eius regulae electionis: Attempts at Changing the Rules of Democracy
Chapter 6. Aiming to Secure a Parliamentary Majority: The 1998 and 1999 Electoral System Changes in Slovakia
Chapter 7. Clashing over the Rules of Democracy: The 19982002 Czech Electoral Reform
Chapter 8. Manufacturing the Monopoly of Power: The Electoral System Change under Orbn
Chapter 9. Constitutional Court Back on the Scene: The 2021 Czech Electoral Reform
Part IV. The Politics of Electoral Reform: A Central European Perspective
Chapter 10. Electoral Reforms in Central Europe since 1989.

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