Reilly B. Electoral Systems for Divided Societies

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Reilly B. Electoral Systems for Divided Societies

Joual of Democracy, Volume 13, Number 2, April 2002, pp.
156-170 (Article)

Benjamin Reilly is a research fellow at the National Centre for
Development Studies, Australian National University. He is the author
of several books, including Democracy in Divided Societies: Electoral
Engineering for Conflict Management (2001), which treats in greater
detail some of the issues discussed in this essay. He also consults
widely on issues of electoral-system design and reform. Funding
from the United States Institute of Peace supported the research
for this essay.

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