The Ethnopolitics of Elections

Florian Bieber, Stefan Wolff

Routledge, 2007 - Political Science - 128 pages

This volume conceptualizes the dynamics underlying electoral politics in ethnically divided societies, providing empirical evidence and analysis of recent elections in such societies on a comparative and single-case basis, including case studies of Macedonia, Slovakia, Belgium, Malaysia, Singapore, Rwanda, Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago.

Free and fair elections are one of the most fundamental characteristics of democratic systems. In ethnically divided societies, elections and the rules and regulations on which they are based assume special importance because they provide important levers to guarantee, or prevent, adequate representation of different communal groups in the key institutions of the state. Hence not only are elections contested vigorously, but also the electoral systems according to which they are conducted.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Ethnopolitics.

Contents

• Contents: 1
• Electoral System Design and Minority Representation in Slovakia: 22
• The Adaptation of the Electoral System to the Ethnolinguistic: 38
• The Limits of Electoral and Spatial Integration: 53
• The Electoral System and Ethnic Voting: 69
• Rwandas Electoral Legacy: 86
• Multiracialism in Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana: 104
• Index: 120

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Ethnopolitics of Elections; Association for the Study of Nationalities Series
• Editors: Florian Bieber, Stefan Wolff
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Routledge, 2007
• ISBN: 0415400473, 9780415400473
• Length: 128 pages
• Subjects: Political Science / General; Political Science / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections; Science / Physics / Nuclear; Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General; Social Science / Race & Ethnic Relations