Embodying Democracy: Electoral System Design In Post-communist Europe (one Europe Or Several?)

"Embodying Democracy analyzes the politics of electoral reform in eight post-communist states including Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine. By exploring the multiple factors that shaped the design of electoral institutions during the first ten years of post-communist transition, it accounts for an important element of the post-communist reform process and illuminates general features of institutional design in post-transition states." -- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Explaining the Design and Redesign of Electoral Systems....Pages 1-24 Poland: Experimenting with the Electoral System....Pages 25-47 Hungary: the Politics of Negotiated Design....Pages 48-66 The Czech and Slovak Republics: the Surprising Resilience of Proportional Representation....Pages 67-89 Romania: Stability without Consensus....Pages 90-108 Bulgaria: Engineering Legitimacy through Electoral System Design....Pages 109-127 Russia: the Limits of Electoral Engineering....Pages 128-142 Ukraine: the Struggle for Democratic Change....Pages 143-163 Conclusion: Embodying Democracy....Pages 164-188 Back Matter....Pages 189-241