Electoral System Design (Burmese)

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This handbook gives a comprehensive overview of the electoral systems in use in more than 200 states and territories. It discusses the advantages and disadvantages of different electoral systems, the factors to consider when modifying or designing an electoral system and provides insights into why certain countries choose particular systems. It also describes which electoral systems have proven advantageous for specific cultural, social and economic conditions and how electoral systems can increase participation, reach out to minorities and facilitate representation of women.

1. Overview

• How to Use this Handbook
• What Electoral Systems Are
• The Importance of Electoral Systems
• Criteria for Design

2. The World of Electoral Systems

3. The Systems and their Consequences

• Plurality-Majority Systems
• First Past the Post
• Block Vote
• Alternative Vote Two-Round Systems
• Semi-PR Systems
• Single Non-Transferable Vote
• Parallel Systems
• Proportional Representation Systems
  • List PR
  • Mixed Member Proportional
  • Single Transferable Vote
• PR-related issues
  • The Threshold
  • Apparentement
  • Open, Closed and Free Lists
  • District Magnitude

4. Special Parliamentary Considerations

• Representation of Women
• Representation of Minorities
• Communal Representation

5. Presidential, Upper House, and Local Government Elections

• Electing a President
• Electing an Upper House
• Electing Local Government

6. Cost and Administrative Implications

7. Advice for Electoral System Designers

Annexes

A. The Electoral Systems of 211 Independent States and Related Territories

B. Glossary of Terms

C. Further Reading

D. Electoral System Impact on the Translation of Votes into Seats

E. Authors and Advisory Group

F. About International IDEA

Case Studies: India, Papua New Guinea, Mali, Ukraine, Jordan, Russia, South Africa, Finland Germany, Bolivia, Ireland, Chile, Sri Lanka and New Zealand

A highly readable publication that should be of interest to anyone who has an interest in electoral systems… The handbook has a number of …excellent features, one of which is the use of examples of ballot papers by way of illustration; another is its use of tables, charts and maps; and a third is its generous use of colour printing which enlivens the presentation. This handbook is recommended to electoral specialists and non-specialists alike as a most welcome guide to electoral systems, their features and effects

Representation (Journal of representative democracy) Vol 36, no 2

If you would like to learn more about electoral systems, a good place to start is The International IDEA Handbook of Electoral System Design

On Democracy (Yale University Press 1998) Robert Dahl

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