Electoral Systems And Democracy

The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy series addresses electoral systems and democracy. As the number of democracies has increased around the world, a heated debate has emerged among experts about which system best promotes the consolidation of democracy. Is proportional representation, a majoritarian system, a mixture of the two, or some other system the best for new democracies? This book compares the experiences of diverse countries, from Latin America to southern Africa, from Uruguay, Japan, and Taiwan to Israel, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Contributors: Joel D. Barkan, Jeffrey Cason, Adeed Dawisha, Larry Diamond, Andrew Ellis, Ken Gladdish, Donald Horowitz, Guy Lardeyret, Arend Lijphart, Jih-wen Lin, Emanuele Ottolenghi, Marc F. Plattner, Quentin L. Quade, Benjamin Reilly, Andrew Reynolds, David Samuels, Richard Snyder, Richard Soudriette, R. Kent Weaver

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute of War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University. Marc F. Plattner is vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. They serve as codirectors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies and coeditors of the Journal of Democracy, as well as of other collections of essays available from Johns Hopkins, including The Global Divergence of Democracies, Islam and Democracy in the Middle East, and Democracy after Communism.

Acknowledgments

vii

Introduction

ix

Larry Diamond

Marc F. Plattner

Electoral Systems and Institutional Design

A Primer for Decision Makers

3

(13)

Donald L. Horowitz

A Global Snapshot

16

(11)

Richard W. Soudriette

Andrew Ellis

Dealing with Divided Societies

27

(15)

Benjamin Reilly

The Case for Power Sharing

42

(14)

Arend Lijphart

The Impact of Federalism

56

(17)

R. Kent Weaver

Is Proportional Representation Best?

Constitutional Choices for New Democracies

73

(13)

Arend Lijphart

The Problem with PR

86

(6)

Guy Lardeyret

PR and Democratic Statecraft

92

(6)

Quentin L. Quade

Double-Checking the Evidence

98

(7)

Arend Lijphart

The Primacy of the Particular

105

(16)

Ken Gladdish

Country and Regional Experiences

Constitutional Engineering in Southern Africa

121

(14)

Andrew Reynolds

Comment: Elections in Agrarian Societies

135

(11)

Joel D. Barkan

Rejoinder: The Case for Proportionality

146

(8)

Andrew Reynolds

Electoral Reform and Stability in Uruguay

154

(14)

Jeffrey Cason

Devaluing the Vote in Latin America

168

(14)

Richard Snyder

David Samuels

Why Direct Election Failed in Israel

182

(14)

Emanuele Ottolenghi

The Politics of Reform in Japan and Taiwan

196

(14)

Jih-wen Lin

The Curious Case of Afghanistan

210

(14)

Andrew Reynolds

Iraq's Year of Voting Dangerously

224

(15)

Adeed Dawisha

Larry Diamond

Index

239

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