Afrim Krasniqi
@isp.com.al
Institute of History / Albanian Academy of Sciences
Institute of History and Institute for Political Studies
Afrim Krasniqi is a Professor and researcher on contemporary history (Institute of History), and executive Director of the Albanian Institute for Political Studies (IPS). Professor Krasniqi earned his Doctorate title from the University of Tirana, defending the thesis “South Eastern Europe in the post-communist period: Analysis of political and governmental systems”. He holds a master’s degree from Viadrina University (Frankfurt, Oder, Germany). He worked as a political adviser to the office of two Albanian presidents, and appears as a columnist and political commentator on different media platforms in Albania and in the region. Furthermore, he has published many monographs, books, studies, and articles about political systems, party politics, civil society, elections, and democracy in Albania and South Eastern European (SEE) countries.
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History, Law, Social Sciences, Political Science and International Relations
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Afrim Krasniqi
Routledge
Dorina Bërdufi and Afrim Krasniqi
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, Institute for Research and European Studies - Bitola
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Springer International Publishing
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Springer International Publishing
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Richtmann Publishing
Even though Albania is one of the smallest European countries, it has one of the highest rates of emigration. It is among the few countries that have not yet implemented the participation of emigrants abroad in political elections. The study analyzes the problems of the case of Albania, the features of emigration and the political behavior with the regard to it, the constitutional and legal rapports, as well as the contrast between the international commitments of Albania, the expectations of emigrants themselves, the electoral promises of the parties, and the fragile practical achievements. My paper argues that due to the significant importance that emigration has with regard to the total number of population, the regional and global trend of granting emigrants the voting right, and the need of the political system for expansion, competition, inflows of ideas and energy, Albania has to make an immediate, stable and effective choice for involving all emigrants in political decision making.
Afrim Krasniqi
Richtmann Publishing
This study analyzes the performance of the electoral systems in South Eastern European countries during the last two decades. It will argue that no other European region has experimented more with electoral systems than the SEE region. This has happened for many reasons: the lack of democratic experience, the nature of the new authoritarian regimes, the political interests of major parties and ethnical composition. Periodic changes that are made to the electoral systems are reflected by changes in the political systems. Countries where electoral systems have had more stability are those that have also had the most stable democracy levels.The study discusses the progress of the electoral process in each of the South Eastern European Country. It analyzes the features, common indicators, external and internal influences, as well as the formulas for translating votes into seats. The current study shows the tendency of regional countries to shift from the majoritarian electoral systems, introduced at first, to proportional electoral systems, as well as the new trends of specific formulas used to represent the ethnic communities and groups of citizens living abroad. While in the early 90’s the electoral system had the tendency towards new political inflows, current tendencies are opposite. The traditional parties have a tendency to control the political representation system, while the new political inflows demanding political representation face obvious difficulties.