"The Growing Litigiousness of Czech Elections"

Kieran Williams has written this article for Europe-Asia Studies. Here is the abstract:

The 2006 Czech elections produced a record number of lawsuits, more than all previous elections to the Chamber of Deputies combined. This article explains the rise as due primarily to the introduction of a new administrative court with special responsibility for electoral disputes. Although the law makes a successful challenge to a result almost impossible, low-cost litigation is attractive to minor political parties as a form of campaigning. The article focuses on the two aspects of the 2006 election that generated the most complaints, media coverage and disproportionality between seats and votes.

Posted by Rick Hasen at September 17, 2007 11:47 AM