Elections in Asia and the Pacific: A Data Handbook Volume 1: Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia

by Nohlen, Dieter; Grotz, Florian; Hartmann, Christof

• ISBN13: 9780199249589
• ISBN10: 019924958X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-02-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This two-volume work continues the series of election data handbooks published by OUP. It presents a first-ever compendium of electoral data for all the 62 states in Asia, Australia and Oceania from their independence to the present. Following the overall structure of the series, an initialcomparative introduction on elections and electoral systems is followed by chapters on each state in the region. Written by knowledgeable and renowned scholars, the contributions examine the evolution of institutional and electoral arrangements, and provide systematic surveys of the up-to-dateelectoral provisions and their historical development. Exhaustive statistics on national elections and referendums are given in each chapter. Together with the other books of this series, Elections in Asia and the Pacific is a highly reliable resource for historical and cross-national comparisons ofelections and electoral systems world-wide. The first volume of Elections in Asia and the Pacific includes a total of 32 independent states situated in the three 'western' regions of the Asian continent: the countries of the Middle East (including Turkey); the post-Soviet states of Central Asia and the Caucasus; and the countries situated inSouth Asia (including Afghanistan and Myanmar).

Table of Contents

Notes on Editors and Contributors	vii
Technical Notes	xv
Elections and Electoral Systems in Asia and the Pacific. The Middle East, Central Asia, and South Asia	1	(46)
Dieter Nohlen
Florian Grotz
Christof Hartmann
Middle East	47	(270)
Bahrain	49	(8)
Christof Hartmann
Iran	57	(28)
Ralph Kauz
Hamid Khosravi Sharoudi
Andreas Rieck
Iraq	85	(24)
Dirk Axtmann
Israel	109	(32)
Matthias Ries
Jordan	141	(14)
Renate Dieterich
Kuwait	155	(14)
Christian Koch
Lebanon	169	(30)
Thomas Scheffler
Oman	199	(4)
Abdullah Juma Alhaj
Qatar	203	(4)
Sherif Wadood
Saudi-Arabia	207	(6)
Ferhad Ibrahim
Syria	213	(20)
Eyal Zisser
Turkey	233	(56)
Harald Schuler
United Arab Emirates	289	(4)
Christian Koch
Yemen	293	(24)
Iris Glosemeyer
Caucasus and Central Asia	317	(184)
Armenia	319	(28)
Florian Grotz
Maria Rodriguez-McKey
Azerbaijan	347	(24)
Florian Grotz
Raoul Motika
Georgia	371	(36)
Natalie Kuchinka-Lancava
Florian Grotz
Kazakhstan	407	(24)
Marie-Carin von Gumppenberg
Kyrgyzstan	431	(24)
Beate Eschment
Florian Grotz
Tajikistan	455	(16)
Florian Grotz
Turkmenistan	471	(12)
Florian Grotz
Uzbekistan	483	(18)
Florian Grotz
South Asia	501	(242)
Afghanistan	503	(12)
Abdul Wahed Sarabi
Bangladesh	515	(38)
Nizam Ahmed
Bhutan	553	(6)
Peter Lehr
India	559	(26)
Mike Enskat
Subrata K. Mitra
Vijay Bahadur Singh
Maldives	585	(12)
Peter Lehr
Myanmar (Burma)	597	(24)
Tilman Frasch
Nepal	621	(40)
Karl-Heinz Kramer
Pakistan	661	(36)
Wolfgang-Peter Zingel
Sri Lanka	697	(46)
Christian Wagner
Glossary	743