Democracy Under Construction: Patterns from Four ContinentsUrsula Van Beek, Hans-Dieter Klingemann B. Budrich, 2005 - 496 pages This book compares five newly emerged democracies in Europe, South East Asia, Latin America, and Africa. Cutting across vastly different historical and cultural backgrounds, this book tells the story of how societies come to terms with a painful past and how politics, culture, and the economy intertwine in the process of creating new democratic nations. The volume pioneers a new approach to the study of democratization. It does so by combining comparative and interdisciplinary analysis of South Africa, Poland, (East) Germany, South Korea, and Chile-that is, five countries where a similar general thrust of democratization is set against the most diversified cultural and historical backgrounds. |
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Page 82
... electoral conundrum The issue related to the new constitutional dispensation to be negotiated is the issue of the electoral system that Michel Debré , the architect of France's 1958 Fifth Republic Constitution , described as being ...
... electoral conundrum The issue related to the new constitutional dispensation to be negotiated is the issue of the electoral system that Michel Debré , the architect of France's 1958 Fifth Republic Constitution , described as being ...
Page 85
... electoral arithmetic of the binominal system is such that one of the main parties and / or coalitions needs only 34 % of the vote to ensure 50 % of the seats . In each of the 60 representatives ' districts and the 19 senatorial ...
... electoral arithmetic of the binominal system is such that one of the main parties and / or coalitions needs only 34 % of the vote to ensure 50 % of the seats . In each of the 60 representatives ' districts and the 19 senatorial ...
Page 88
... electoral law based on PR with no threshold led to extreme party fragmentation . A total of 111 lists presented candidates , with 29 parties ending up in Parliament , of which 11 had only one deputy in the Sejm . ' 15 Changes in the ...
... electoral law based on PR with no threshold led to extreme party fragmentation . A total of 111 lists presented candidates , with 29 parties ending up in Parliament , of which 11 had only one deputy in the Sejm . ' 15 Changes in the ...
Contents
Editors introduction | 21 |
A closing thought | 35 |
Values in transition to democracy | 52 |
Copyright | |
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