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. 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), the study concludes by considering the potentials and possibilities for implementing reform in the current socio-political context.
Fundamentals of Electoral System Reform: The Case of Serbia
Author(s) Dejan Bursać Publisher Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade Published 2024 ISBN 978-86-82324-68-3 Pages 163 Edition Square