CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Vukelic, Kristijan |
|---|---|
| Title | Designing Special Electoral Mechanisms for Group Representation |
| Summary | The purpose of this paper is a detailed and systematic analysis of currently utilized electoral mechanisms that produce descriptive representation of various minority groups in parliaments around the world. The current literature on the topic has been concerned more with simplifying the existing variability than with in-depth comparison of cases. In order to remedy this gap in our knowledge, the first part of the thesis delivers a survey of twenty two countries where minorities are represented in the legislature through the working of an alternative set of electoral rules established explicitly for that purpose. The cases are found to be extremely heterogeneous with unique aspects in almost every country. The presentation of cases is followed by an analysis which tries to identify the general patterns that the cases fall into, with the ultimate goal of providing institutional designers with a clear set of available options for designing group representation mechanisms. |
| Supervisor | Toka, Gabor |
| Department | Political Science MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/vukelic_kristijan.pdf |
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