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Embodying Democracy

Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe

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  • © 2002

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Authors:
  1. Sarah Birch

    1. Department of Government, University of Essex, UK

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  2. Frances Millard

    1. Department of Government, University of Essex, UK

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  3. Marina Popescu

    1. Department of Government, University of Essex, UK

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  4. Kieran Williams

    1. School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

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Part of the book series: One Europe or Several? (OES)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Explaining the Design and Redesign of Electoral Systems

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 1-24

  3. Poland: Experimenting with the Electoral System

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 25-47

  4. Hungary: the Politics of Negotiated Design

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 48-66

  5. The Czech and Slovak Republics: the Surprising Resilience of Proportional Representation

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 67-89

  6. Romania: Stability without Consensus

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 90-108

  7. Bulgaria: Engineering Legitimacy through Electoral System Design

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 109-127

  8. Russia: the Limits of Electoral Engineering

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 128-142

  9. Ukraine: the Struggle for Democratic Change

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 143-163

  10. Conclusion: Embodying Democracy

    • Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, Kieran Williams
    Pages 164-188

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 189-241
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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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Government, University of Essex, UK

    Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu

  • School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, UK

    Kieran Williams

About the authors

SARAH BIRCH is Lecturer in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. She is the author of Elections and Democratization in Ukraine and a number of articles on Ukrainian politics and post-communist studies.

FRANCES MILLARD is Reader in the Department of Government at the University of Essex. Her books include Polish Politics and Society and The Anatomy of the New Poland. She has written widely on communist and post-communist political and social developments, particularly in Poland.

MARINA POPESCU was Research Officer for the ESRC-funded Project on Political Transformation and the Electoral Process in Post-Communist Europe from 1999 to 2002 after which she resumed her work as a full-time PhD student at the University of Essex.

KIERAN WILLIAMS is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London. He is the author of The Prague Spring and its Aftermath: Czechoslovak Politics, 1968-1970 and co-author (with Dennis Deletant) of Security Intelligence Services in New Democracies: The Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania.

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