Timothy M. Meisburger is director for Elections and Political Processes at the Asia Foundation. He wrote this essay while on sabbatical as a World Learning Democracy Fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). The opinions expressed here are solely his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Asia Foundation, USAID, or World Learning.
January 2012, Volume 23, Issue 1
Contrary to popular wisdom, emerging democracies might be better off with a majoritarian electoral system rather than one based on proportional representation.
