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Equality implies proportionality: Assessing the (dis)proportionality of constituencies created for the 2022 Slovak regional elections Cover

Equality implies proportionality: Assessing the (dis)proportionality of constituencies created for the 2022 Slovak regional elections

Open Access
|Dec 2023

Abstract

In a democratic environment, political equality implies proportionality. Achieving this in an electoral setting can be complicated and unrealistic. The aim of this article is to investigate the logic, approach and method of creating constituencies in the elections for Slovak self-governing regions in 2022. We track the key attributes related to proportionality: the legislation, the actual creation of constituencies, the mechanisms used for the redistribution of mandates and the achievement of proportionality in individual constituencies within particular regions. Our results indicate considerable disproportionality within the constituencies of particular self-governing regions, which is mainly caused by the lack of effective legislation, the different approaches of authorities in creating constituencies and the absence of limits to the violation of electoral and thus political equality.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/pce-2023-0030 | Journal eISSN: 2787-9038 | Journal ISSN: 1801-3422
Language: English
Page range: 645 - 666
Published on: Dec 18, 2023
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 4 issues per year

© 2023 Jakub Bardovič, And Jaroslav Mihálik, published by Metropolitan University Prague
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