Previous changes to electoral legislation were mostly subordinated to the logic of short-term political gain from the perspective of decision-makers. Therefore, the somewhat ambitious aim of this book is to gather and present the entire issue of electoral system reform to future reformists and the interested public in one place, with the hope that it will be done in a simple and accessible manner.

The book is structured through chapters: apart from the section that will deal with the review of the history of small and large reforms since the return of multi-partyism in Serbia in 1990 and their theoretical explanations, the next 12 chapters are dedicated to the biggest individual problems, i.e., the neuralgic points of the proportional electoral system with closed lists and a single electoral unit, and its consequences in our country, as well as proposals for possible reform. Essentially, through these 12 steps, we will answer the question of what should fundamentally constitute the reform of the electoral system in Serbia. What are the main points for discussion on reform and what produces a good, efficient, representative, quality electoral system – and why is ours not? From the technical conditions for conducting elections (bodies for organizing and conducting the electoral process, voter lists, remote voting), through the formal conditions for the participation of actors (candidacy, dates), the appearance of the parliament (electoral threshold, size of the representative body, participation of women and ethnic minorities, personalization and territorial representation) to the voting mechanism at two key political levels whose intertwining crucially affects the definition (and deformations) of the political system in Serbia (presidential elections and the electoral system for parliamentary elections), we will conclude the study in harsh reality: in the last chapter, we will consider the potentials and possibilities for implementing reform in the current socio-political context.