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Democracy in Divided Societies

Democracy in Divided Societies

Hardcover

Series: Theories of Institutional Design

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0521793238
ISBN13: 9780521793230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Sep 13 2001
Pages: 232
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.46 Depth: 9.18
Language: English
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.

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