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How Communism Could Have Been Saved: Formal Analysis of Electoral Bargaining in Poland in 1989

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During the 1989 Roundtable Talks, Solidarity and PUWP (the Communist Party) were bargaining over the electoral law for the 1989 parliamentary elections in Poland--the first semifree elections held in the Soviet Bloc. The author shows that PUWP's consent to the elections was founded on an overly optimistic estimate of its popular support. A surprising Solidarity victory led to the subsequent collapse of the communist regime in Poland and initiated the fall of communism in other countries. An alternative electoral law, a single transferable vote, would have been mutually acceptable to both parties while producing an outcome that would have been critically better for the communists. Copyright 1999 by Kluwer Academic Publishers

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  • Kaminski, Marek M, 1999. "How Communism Could Have Been Saved: Formal Analysis of Electoral Bargaining in Poland in 1989," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 98(1-2), pages 83-109, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:kap:pubcho:v:98:y:1999:i:1-2:p:83-109
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