Democracy in Divided Societies

by Ben Reilly and Benjamin Reilly

Book Overview

Reilly analyzes the design of electoral systems for divided societies, examining various divided societies which utilize vote-pooling electoral systems--including Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka, Northern Ireland and Fiji. He shows that political institutions which encourage the development of broad-based, aggregative political parties and where campaigning politicians have incentives to attract votes from a range of ethnic groups can, under certain conditions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521797306
• ISBN13: 9780521797306
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"