Parties as a privileged subject of the electoral process: The results of the institutional experience
Abstract
The article examines the expansion of electoral rights of formal parties at the expense of other collective and individual actors. The author proposes typology of countries depending on political parties privileges when nominating candidates for elections. The paper examines the anti-democratic effect of granting privileges for parties in the electoral process. The paper describes the experience of Eastern Europe in removal of free associations out of elections. It is noted also that in Western democracies political parties have privileges not over associations of citizens, but over independent candidates. In general, providing electoral privileges to formal parties is assessed as a threat to democracy as a whole.
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