{"id":4296,"date":"2016-05-13T01:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/?p=4296"},"modified":"2016-05-13T01:42:18","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T08:42:18","slug":"what-will-upcoming-election-mean-for-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/what-will-upcoming-election-mean-for-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"With Changes to Electoral System, What Outlook for Mongolian Democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By <a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/?q=dierkes&amp;cref=http%3A%2F%2Fthediplomat.com%2F%3Fglcse%3D1&amp;cof=FORID%3A11&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;s=glcse\">Julian Dierkes<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>As parliament has accepted the high court rejection of proportional representation, some options remained, particular a postponing of the election or a reversion to the 2008 block-voting system. It now seems that a return to the 2004 system (76 majoritarian ridings) is more likely.<\/p>\n<p>In this context, I&#8217;ve offered some thoughts about the implications of the upcoming election beyond immediate outcomes at <a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2016\/05\/guarded-confidence-in-mongolian-democracy\/\">The Diplomat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Julian Dierkes As parliament has accepted the high court rejection of proportional representation, some options remained, particular a postponing of the election or a reversion to the 2008 block-voting system. It now seems that a return to the 2004 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/2016\/what-will-upcoming-election-mean-for-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6444,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[252610,104,4291,1223,983080,307841],"tags":[983090],"class_list":["post-4296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-constitution","category-democracy","category-elections","category-governance","category-ikh-khural-2016","category-party-politics","tag-julian-dierkes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6444"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4296\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mongolia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}