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Substantive Equality of Elections. Classical and Revisionist Approach

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to systematize the controversies among legal scholars over the meaning of the concept of substantive equality of elections. The first part presents a historical outline illustrating the emergence of the idea of equal elections in the course of the development of the institutional model of a democratic state. The second part discusses the basic meaning of the equality-based standards of democratic elections, as well as the specific interpretation of the substantive aspect of electoral equality, emphasizing the necessity to ensure that equal elections display also the feature of proportionality. In view of the fact that contemporary electoral procedures include the system of the First-Past-The-Post, the basic interpretation of substantive equality of elections is defined as its classical interpretation, still preserving a dominant position in jurisprudence dealing with electoral law.

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