Electoral Laws, Electoral List and Campaigning in the First Non-Racial South African Election

南非的多党谈判进程已将1994年4月27日定为普选新制宪会议的日期。新制宪会议将作为临时立法机构和新宪法的起草机构。基本的选举机制将是名单比例代表制，包括地方选区和全国选区。这项调查包括使用硬数据和软数据的组合来测试一些关于政党战略和选民选择的具体假设，这些假设对研究选举制度对种族和民族冲突的影响具有普遍意义。一名调查人员将在南非花两个半月的时间观察这次关键选举的竞选活动，并收集竞选材料档案和候选人数据库。调查人员将在选举结束后的几个星期内继续与参与者（获胜者和失败者）以及学术和新闻来源进行进一步的访谈，并收集行政区（相当于选区）一级选举结果的完整数据集和尽可能多的民意调查的数据集。这些数据还将用于模拟采用其他选举制度可能产生的选举后果。＊＊＊

9321864 Grofman The multi-party negotiation process in South Africa has set a date of April 27, 1994 for universal suffrage elections to a new constituent assembly that will serve as an interim legislature and as a constitutional drafting body for a new constitution. The basic election mechanism will be list Proportional Representation (PR) with both local constituencies and a national list. This investigation involves using a combination of hard and soft data to test a number of specific hypotheses about party strategies and voter choices in this important election - - hypotheses with general implication for the study of the influence of electoral systems on racial and ethnic conflict. An investigator will spend two and one half months in South Africa observing the campaigning in this critical election and gathering an archive of campaign material and a data base about candidates. The investigator will remain for several weeks after the election to conduct additional interviews of participants (both winners and losers) and of academic and journalistic sources and to collect a complete data set of election outcomes at the magisterial district (precinct equivalent) level and data sets from as many public opinion polls as are available. These data will also be used to generate simulations of the likely electoral consequences had alternative electoral systems been used. ***