أثر نظم الانتخاب التفضيلية على تحقيق الاعتدال

الملخص EN

This study aimed at analyzing the impact of preferential voting systems on achieving moderation in a number of cases, those cases were chosen because they adopted one of the preferential systems at least in two parliamentary elections on the national level.

the study concluded that those systems have succeeded in achieving moderation in Australia, northern Ireland and Papua new guinea, while it have failed in achieving this moderation in Fiji, the adoption of the alternative vote in Papua new guinea and the single transferable vote in northern Ireland and the adoption of those two systems in Australia led to the victory of moderate candidates and parties, while the adoption of the alternative vote in Fiji led to the victory of extremists.

the study concluded also that there are two main determinants which affect the effectiveness of preferential voting systems, the first is that no group in the society represents majority in electoral districts, while the other is the peaceful electoral context in which elections take place.