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Title:Alternative electoral systems and the 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary election
Author:Ishiyama, JohnISNI
Year:2008
Periodical:African Studies Quarterly (ISSN 1093-2658)
Volume:10
Issue:4
Pages:37-56
Language:English
Geographic term:Ethiopia
Subjects:electoral systems
elections
2005
External link:https://asq.africa.ufl.edu/ishiyama_spring09-2/
Abstract:What if an alternative set of electoral rules had been used to govern elections when an authoritarian regime introduces its first real competitive elections? Would this alter the trajectory of democratic transition, after the introduction of political competition? In this paper, the author conducts a set of electoral simulations with different electoral systems using the results from the 2005 Ethiopian parliamentary election. Would the results have been different had something other than the Single Member District Plurality system been employed in the 2005 election? Would the opposition parties have attained more seats and if so, how many more? The author finds that had certain electoral rules been employed (particularly the Block Plurality system), the opposition parties would have fared much better in the 2005 parliamentary elections, and this would have had an important impact affecting the course of events that immediately followed the 2005 election. This has important implications for the negotiations over the rules governing future Ethiopian elections. Bibliogr., notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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