O VOLEBNÍM INŽENÝRSTVÍ NA SLOVENSKU OD ROKU 1989

• Authors: Charvát Jakub

Title variants

EN

On electoral engineering in Slovakia since 1989

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper analyses the politics of electoral reform since 1989 in Slovakia as it follows the earlier paper of Michal Drengubiak (2017) in order to advance some of its conclusions. After a brief theoretical introduction of the investigated issue the paper focuses on four electoral-reform processes in Slovakia, namely electoral reforms of 1990, 1992, 1998 and 1999. The main findings of the paper are that the 1990 electoral reform was an elite-dominated process, that the 1998 electoral reform is an example of a specific case regarding the Micro-mega rule of Josep Colomer, and that there may be distinguished two waves of the politics of electoral reform in Slovakia (transitional and post-transitional) which differs mainly in strategies opted by political actors to maximize their parliamentary seat shares.

Keywords

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ELECTORAL ENGINEERING; PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS; POLITICS; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Political Sciences, Faculty of Arts, University of Prešov
• Journal: Annales Scientia Politica
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 5 – 14

Contributors

author

Charvát Jakub

• Department of Political Science and Humanities, Metropolitan University of Prague, Czech Republic