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How the Tailor of Marrakesh Suit Has Been Altered: Advantage Ratio as a Tool in Post-Communist Electoral Reforms Research

ŠEDO, Jakub and Roman CHYTILEK

Basic information

Original name

How the Tailor of Marrakesh Suit Has Been Altered: Advantage Ratio as a Tool in Post-Communist Electoral Reforms Research

Name in Czech

Přešívání obleku krejčího z Marrakéše: Advantage Ratio jako nástroj ve výzkumu volebních reforem postkomunistických zemí

Authors

ŠEDO, Jakub (203 Czech Republic, guarantor) and Roman CHYTILEK (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Evropská volební studia, Brno, ISPO FSS MU, 2007, 1801-6545

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50601 Political science

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/07:00021939

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

Post-communist countries; electoral systems; electoral reforms; advantage ratio

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 4/6/2008 14:50, doc. PhDr. Roman Chytilek, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

The text analyzes the character of the second wave of electoral system reform in post-communist countries. It describes the direction of the change in status quo after the first reform, which was usually implemented by participants on the basis of imperfect or incomplete information. We claim that the character of the second reforms favored the bigger and established parties and accentuated the tendencies towards establishing electoral competition between political parties at the expense of other participants (independent candidates). We furthermore use a sample of 40 electoral events in 15 post-communist countries to analyze the potential of the strongest electoral parties and other parliamentary parties to transform votes into seats, and we connect this characteristic with the electoral changes made, arguing that the logic of the electoral rules and the effects arising from the actual shares of the vote won in elections sometimes reinforced one another but - at least in some electoral events - also ran in opposite directions

In Czech

The text analyzes the character of the second wave of electoral system reform in post-communist countries. It describes the direction of the change in status quo after the first reform, which was usually implemented by participants on the basis of imperfect or incomplete information. We claim that the character of the second reforms favored the bigger and established parties and accentuated the tendencies towards establishing electoral competition between political parties at the expense of other participants (independent candidates). We furthermore use a sample of 40 electoral events in 15 post-communist countries to analyze the potential of the strongest electoral parties and other parliamentary parties to transform votes into seats, and we connect this characteristic with the electoral changes made, arguing that the logic of the electoral rules and the effects arising from the actual shares of the vote won in elections sometimes reinforced one another but - at least in some electoral events - also ran in opposite directions

Links

MSM0021622407, plan (intention)
Name: Politické strany a reprezentace zájmů v soudobých evropských demokraciích
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Political Parties and The Representation of Interests in Contemporary European Democracies