Oxford Scholarship Online: Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook

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Subject: Political Science Book Title: Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook

Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook

Volume I: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia

Nohlen, Dieter (Editor), Professor of Political Science, University of Heidelberg

Grotz, Florian (Editor), Assistant Professor, European Centre of Comparative Government and Public Policy, Berlin

Hartmann, Christof (Editor), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Development Research and Development Policy, Ruhr University of Bochum

Print publication date: 2001
Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: November 2003
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924958-9
doi:10.1093/019924958X.001.0001

Abstract: Gives a comprehensive overview of national elections and referendums in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Caucasus, and South Asia. For all relevant states, the legal provisions on suffrage as well as parliamentary and presidential electoral systems are analysed in both a historical and a comparative manner. Investigates the effects of elections and electoral systems on the development of the political regimes. The concluding section summarizes the context-specific availability and reliability of official electoral statistics. The appendix presents the basic features of the parliamentary electoral systems currently applied in the 22 states of the three regions.

Keywords: Caucasus, Central Asia, elections, electoral statistics, electoral systems, Middle East, parliamentary elections, presidential elections, referendums, South Asia, suffrage

Table of Contents

Preface