Proportional Representation in Prewar Poland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4209784 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander J Groth (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1964 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 103-116 |
| Publication date | 1964-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2492379 |
| OpenAlex | W2313033402 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Institutions can frequently play crucial roles in the political process. Rarely has this been more true than in Poland immediately after World War I, and rarely has a great political party made a more substantial mistake than did the Polish National Democrats and their allies in backing the establishment of proportional representation. It was largely because of this ill-fated electoral device that the Nationalist Right failed to win control of the first and second parliaments in renascent Poland. Coincidentally, no government based on the support of one reasonably homogeneous group could be formed until 1930, and then the conduct of the 1930 election rendered the results highly suspect.Proportional representation was first employed in Poland in the elections to the Constituent Sejm of 1919. The electoral law was promulgated in November, 1918, by Premier Jędrzej Moraczewski, whose action then could only be described as reflecting full national consensus
Democracy · Electoral system · Government (linguistics · Homogeneous · Mistake · Nationalism · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Proportional representation · Representation (politics · Sociology · Suspect · Law · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |