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The Politics of Electoral Reform in Central Europe Since 1989: The Temptation of the Incumbents

by Jakub Charvát
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9783031450853
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 166
  • Original Price: EUR 119.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 259 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Political Process / Campaigns & Elections, Comparative Politics, and World / European

From the Back Cover
This book on the politics of electoral reform in Central Europe since 1989 explains by whom, why, and how the electoral rules were changed in Central Europe in the post-Communist period. Examining the contextual factors affecting, underlying, and/or initiating these changes, the book identifies main actors, their motivations, and other circumstances surrounding the electoral reform processes. It further explores their political consequences, particularly on proportionality and personalization.
Based on a detailed analysis of electoral reform processes in Czechoslovakia, Czechia, Hungary, and Slovakia over the past thirty years, the book discusses how the politics of electoral reform in Central Europe is mostly driven, controlled, and decided by politicians, with other actors being either overlooked or ignored. Finally, it argues that most of the cases were imposed by an elite majority, with the sole exception of the Czech Republic, where the politics of electoral reform were influenced by the intervention of the constitutional court as an external actor.
The book will appeal to students, researchers, and scholars of political science interested in a better understanding of electoral politics in general, as well as democratic transformation processes and electoral reform in Central Europe.

Jakub Charvát is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies, Metropolitan University Prague, Czechia, and at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí and Labem, Czechia. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Politics in Central Europe. His research focuses on elections, electoral systems, politics, and the contemporary history of the Czech Republic and Central European countries.

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