Selective barrier as an element of electoral engineering

Morozova Oksana S.

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The article focuses on the essence of the electoral threshold, which is used in elections in a number of countries around the world. The peculiarities of legal regulation of the electoral threshold. The views of supporters and opponents of the electoral threshold. Considered the electoral threshold: its very existence and magnitude as one of the elements of the electoral engineering. The aims introducing the barrier. The examples of determining the value of the barrier.

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