In the early 1990s most African countries carried out extensive reforms of their electoral regimes. Adopting a historical institutionalist approach, this paper critically examines the role of institutional path dependence in accounting for the setup of six African electoral regimes. For this...

Die Studie analysiert die Auswirkungen auf die politische Repräsentation, die sich aufgrund der Wahl zweier getrennter Kammern in den bikameralen Systemen Lateinamerikas ergeben. Die Analyse umfasst mechanische (quantitative) und qualitative (Perzeptionen) Effekte. Nachdem wir Verbreitung und...

Factionalism can affect the stability and institutionalization of parties and party systems and it can impact on the efficiency and legitimacy of political parties and political systems as a whole. Nevertheless, factionalism has only received scant attention in the comparative literature on...