Districting and Redistricting in Eastern and Central Europe: Regulations and Practices

Marina Popescu, Gábor Tóka

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

After the demise of communism in 1988–91, one of the first tasks faced by the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe was to devise electoral systems to hold multiparty elections. Proportional (PR) systems were introduced in the Czech and Slovak Republics, Estonia, Latvia, Moldova, Poland, Romania and later in Bulgaria and Croatia. Mixed systems proved very popular: parallel mixed systems, employing a majoritarian and a PR-segment side by side have been used in Lithuania since 1992, in Russia since 1993, and in the Ukraine in 1998 and 2002, and also made an appearance in the first elections in Bulgaria and Croatia in 1990 and in Albania in 1996–7. More complex mixed compensatory systems have been in place in Hungary since late 1989, and in Albania in 1992 and after 1997.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRedistricting in comparative perspective
EditorsGrofman Bernard, Handley Lisa
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Pages251-264
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9780199227402
DOIs
StatePublished - 2008

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