Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY JOURNAL OF FACULTY OF POLITICAL SCIENCES-SIYASAL BILGILER FAKULTESI DERGISI, sa.53, ss.87-101, 2015 (ESCI)
This article analyses Egypt and Iraq in the context of the electoral system design during the post-dictatorial transition process. Regime changes in both countries were followed by free and fair elections. However, as of late 2014 both countries arc in a heavy state of uncertainty. The Iraqi electoral system was designed so as to materialize a high level of proportionality. On the one hand, this made the fair representation of different ethnic, religious and sectarian groups in the parliament possible. On the other,it made political groupings nothing but the reflection of the ethnic and sectarian identities. In the districts where the PR applied in Egypt the seat distribution proved to be proportional, however in the single member districts the Islamists won a much larger proportion of seats than their vote share. This contributed to their dominance in the parliament.