Election law

The right to participate politically is the moral foundation of democratic self-government, but in many countries large groups are opposed to democracy. Do democrats have an obligation to respect the political rights of antidemocrats? When is it legitimate to limit citizens' rig…

Five years after the sovereign-making 1979 Revolution, the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI) formally constructed the procedural rules and consensus about who are admitted to and excluded from its electoral regime. The 1984 intra-elite procedural compact, while excluding regime opp…