Overview
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.
- | Author: Benjamin Reilly
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Sep 13, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 232 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0521797306
- | ISBN-13: 9780521797306
