Changing Russia's electoral system: Assessing alternative forms of representation and electionsстатьяИсследовательская статья
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Аннотация:Our approach is to take election district and oblast-level data from the 1995 parliamentary elections (section 1) and the 1996 presidential contest (section 2), and assess what would have happened had a different method of aggregating those votes been employed. The most evident justification for this approach is that it is the one most likely to be used by decision makers in Moscow when assessing alternatives. If, as is sometimes said of generals, military plans 'refight the last war,' then it is also true that politicians, when assessing the consequences of 'reform,' compete anew in the last election. In section 3 we consider the possibility of one contending side or the other-communists, nationalists, centrists, or reformers-increasing its vote share or recombining with others in various ways. Our last section offers some general conclusions and reiterates that caution that must be taken with our approach.