Politics of Electoral Reform in Central Europe since 1989

Jakub Charvát is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Political Science and Anglophone Studies, Metropolitan University Prague, Czechia, and at the Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts, Jan Evangelista Purkyně in Ústí and Labem, Czechia. He serves as the Editor-in-Chief of Politics in Central Europe. His research focuses on elections, electoral systems, politics, and the contemporary history of the Czech Republic and Central European countries.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. The Politics of Electoral Reform: A Framework for Analysis.- Chapter 2. Electoral System Change: A Theoretical Perspective.- Chapter 3. Political Consequences of Electoral Reforms: Proportionality and Personalisation.- Part II. Electoral Systems under Re/Construction: What Electoral Systems for new Democracies?.- Chapter 4. The Most Complex Electoral System as a Compromise: The Hungarian Negotiations of 1989.- Chapter 5. The Politics of Electoral Reform as a Dispute over the Role of Parties: Czechoslovak Debates in the Early 1990s.- Part III. Cuius regio, eius regulae electionis: Attempts at Changing the Rules of Democracy.- Chapter 6. Aiming to Secure a Parliamentary Majority: The 1998 and 1999 Electoral System Changes in Slovakia.- Chapter 7. Clashing over the Rules of Democracy: The 1998–2002 Czech Electoral Reform.- Chapter 8. Manufacturing the Monopoly of Power: The Electoral System Change under Orbán.- Chapter 9. Constitutional Court Backon the Scene: The 2021 Czech Electoral Reform.- Part IV. The Politics of Electoral Reform: A Central European Perspective.- Chapter 10. Electoral Reforms in Central Europe since 1989.