Hybrid electoral systems in the modern world: main types and usage trends at nation-wide level
Journal Title: Вісник Національного технічного університету України “Київський політехнічний інститут”. Політологія. Соціологія. Право. - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue
Abstract
This paper discusses the issue of “hybrid electoral system” as a certain type of modern electoral systems. The author determines hybrid electoral system as not as a synonym of mixed electoral system, but as a different type with its own features. A hybrid system should be defined as a system, which makes one part of a country to elect its representatives using one electoral system, and the other part of the country to elect its representatives using another electoral system. Further analysis of the PARLINE database provided by the Inter-parliamentary union helped to discover 34 chambers of parliaments in 31 countries of the world elected with the help of hybrid electoral systems. The author distinguishes 8 types of hybrid electoral systems. They are hybrid electoral systems for voting from abroad; politically hybrid electoral systems; demographically hybrid electoral systems; geographically hybrid electoral systems; hybrid electoral systems for minorities’ representation; hybrid electoral systems in island states; hybrid electoral systems in federative states; transitional hybrid electoral systems. The most part of the analysis concerns these 8 types and their implementations in certain states. The analysis provided us with some essential trends in hybrid systems’ spread and implementations. Hybrid systems are mostly used in Africa and Europe. They are less popular in the states with bicameral parliaments than in the states with unicameral parliaments. The most popular combinations of pure types of electoral systems in hybrid systems are the first past the post electoral system with the party list proportional electoral system and the first past the post electoral system with the block vote electoral system. The author also proposes a coefficient for the evaluation of hybridity level of an electoral system.
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Р. В. Чупрін
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