Institutions as Causes and Effects: North African Electoral Systems During the Arab Spring | Zendy

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Institutions as Causes and Effects: North African Electoral Systems During the Arab Spring

Author(s) -

John M. Carey,

Tarek Masoud,

Andrew Reynolds

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

ssrn electronic journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 1556-5068

DOI - 10.2139/ssrn.2821681

Subject(s) - democratization , authoritarianism , proportional representation , spring (device) , competition (biology) , political science , democracy , component (thermodynamics) , representation (politics) , quality (philosophy) , selection (genetic algorithm) , electoral geography , political economy , public administration , politics , sociology , law , computer science , mechanical engineering , engineering , ecology , philosophy , physics , epistemology , artificial intelligence , biology , thermodynamics

From late 2010 through 2011, popular uprisings toppled authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya. In each country, a key component of the new regime's "founding moment" was the selection of rules for the first democratically elected assembly. This paper asks how the design of electoral systems affected the outcomes of the founding elections. We are interested in whether the rules of competition were consequential in determining winners and losers, and to the quality and trajectory of democratization. Our conclusions are based on analysis of district level results from the list proportional representation component of each election and on first person interviews with actors in who participated in the design of electoral rules.

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