Shifting Scales of Electoral Law and Parliamentary Democracy in Romania at the End of the 19th Century
Shifting Scales of Electoral Law and Parliamentary Democracy in Romania at the End of the 19th Century

Summary/Abstract: This presents the evolution of the electoral legislation in Romania, focusing on the main electoral law elaborated up to 1900. Despite its limitations, the electoral system based on qualification contributed to the modernization of the Romanian society, to the knowledge of modern political rules. In this context, the article focuses on the modernization of the states at political level occurred as a result of the progress registered by the democratic system over time. The shifting scales of the electoral reform represent one of the expressions of political democracy to grant voting rights to a larger as possible number of citizens, presenting historically the introduction of this principle of national election (universal suffrage).

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