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Uczciwość wyborów jako zasada prawa wyborczego
Fair elections as a principle of election law

Author(s): Grzegorz Kryszeń
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence, Public Law, Electoral systems
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: democracy; elections; electoral law; electoral standards; principles of electoral law; fair elections; election monitoring

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the work is to discuss the demand for identifying the principle of fair elections as a legal determinant of democratic elections. It presents arguments for including this principle among the basic principles of election law, and thus for considering it as one of the fundamental legal “pillars” or the guarantees of democratic electoral process, and in a broader perspective, as one of the key principles of representative democracy or even the whole democratic

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: 21
  • Page Range: 7-30
  • Page Count: 24
  • Language: Polish