Blog of the International Journal of Constitutional Law

Tag: Proportional representation

  • The Grass is Always Greener on the Other Side: Proportional Representation vs. Majoritarian Election Systems

    —Rivka Weill, Harry Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya. This post is based on a lecture delivered on July 1, 2019 at the ICON-S Annual Conference at Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile. In the US, there is an allegedly recurrent problem of gerrymandering of voting districts.

  • Constitutional Reform in Grenada

    —Richard Albert, Boston College Law School The Constitution of Grenada, still today a statute of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, may soon become a truly Grenadian Constitution. Grenada is in the process of reforming its constitution to give its people a constitution of their own making.

  • Constitutional Dialogues in Italy

    —Francesco Duranti, Università per Stranieri di Perugia (Italy) On January 13, the Italian Constitutional Court issued a judgment on the electoral law (no. 270/2005) for both Houses of Parliament (Camera dei Deputati, the Lower House; and Senato della Repubblica, the Upper House)[1].