Democratization and Electoral Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region
Democratization and Electoral Reform in the Asia-Pacific Region
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亚太地区的民主化和选举改革
DOI：
10.1177/0010414006299097
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发表时间：
2007
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5
通讯作者：
B. Reilly
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作者：
B. Reilly
在过去二十年中，许多亚太国家在基本政治自由和自由竞争选举的基础上向民主过渡。这一进程的一个鲜为人知的后果是对选举制度、政党和议会等关键政治机构进行了惊人的一致改革。在整个地区，这些改革的动机是促进政府稳定、减少政治分裂和限制新成员进入政党体系的可能性。因此，类似的制度设计战略明显体现在“混合成员多数”选举制度日益盛行、新的政党法有利于发展集合政党制度以及限制区域或族裔少数群体的选举权。将这些改革的结果与世界其他地区的改革结果相比较，似乎越来越多的人都认同选举民主的“亚洲模式”。
During the past two decades, numerous Asia-Pacific states have made transitions to democracy founded on basic political liberties and freely contested elections. A little-noticed consequence of this process has been strikingly congruent reforms to key political institutions such as electoral systems, political parties, and parliaments. Across the region, these reforms have been motivated by common aims of promoting government stability, reducing political fragmentation, and limiting the potential for new entrants to the party system. As a result, similar strategies of institutional design are evident in the increasing prevalence of “mixed-member majoritarian” electoral systems, new political party laws favoring the development of aggregative party systems, and constraints on the enfranchisement of regional or ethnic minorities. Comparing the outcomes of these reforms with those of other world regions, there appears to be an increasing convergence on an identifiable “Asian model” of electoral democracy.