Elections in Poland 2001: electoral manipulation and party upheaval |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;2. Department of Health Sciences, VU University Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;3. Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Unit of Primary Care and Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain;4. MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton General Hospital, Southampton, United Kingdom;5. Bethesda Geriatric Clinic, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany;6. Institute of the History, Philosophy and Ethics of Medicine, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany;7. National Research Council, Aging Branch, Institute of Neuroscience, Padova, Italy;8. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;9. Department of Medicine, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;10. Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;1. Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China;2. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA;3. Dispatching and Control Center of Shanxi Electric Power Company of SGCC, Taiyuan, Shanxi Province 030002, China;1. Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment & Resource Reuse of Hainan Province, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, Hainan Province, P.R. China;2. School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Hainan Medical University, Haikou, 571199, Hainan Province, P.R. China;3. Key Laboratory of Tropical Medicinal Plant Chemistry of the Ministry of Education, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, 571158, Hainan Province, P.R. China;1. School of Geographic and Environment Science, Guizhou Normal University, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550001, China;2. Department of Water Resources of Guizhou Province, Guiyang, Guizhou, 510275, China;3. Guizhou of Hydrology and Water Resource Bureau, Guiyang, Guizhou, 550000, China |
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| Abstract: | The Polish parliamentary elections of 2001 took place in a context of fresh upheavals in the configuration of political parties. The architects of the new electoral law aimed to reduce the seats gained by the social democrats and increase their own. They succeeded in the first aim by a change of electoral formula, forcing the victorious social democratic electoral coalition to seek a third coalition partner. They did not achieve the second aim, as their own failures in government drastically reduced their electoral support and facilitated the breakthrough of populist formations. The result had implications for party development and the composition and workings of both parliament and government. While representation was enhanced by a parliament more accurately reflecting the voters’ choice, the impact appeared potentially harmful to Polish democracy as a whole. |
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