Electoral Engineering and Conflict Management

The Global Journal of Political Science and Election Tribunal (GJPSET) is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles in all fields of political science, election tribunal, and allied disciplines on a regular basis. This journal's objective is to provide scientists and researchers from all over the world a genuine forum to communicate, promote, and discuss a wide range of slashing concepts and advancements in all facets of technical and vocational education. Several academics have stated that, among the several democratic institutions, none is more important than deciding on the voting system to be used.
Election systems have long been seen as one of the most important institutional tools for altering the nature of political rivalry. This is due to two main factors: first, they are one electoral authority and, as such, the most specific manipulable instrument of politics, meaning they can be purposefully created to achieve specific outcomes; and second, they structure the political competition environment, including the party system, and provide incentives to act in specific ways. Nonetheless, the priority given to voting systems as "means of conflict management" has been called into question in many locations, as electoral system design has not shown to be a panacea for the whims of communal strife. Determine the conditions in which electoral systems have the greatest influence on outcomes and examine the cumulative evidence of the relationship between electoral systems and intrasocietal conflict. It is critical not to overestimate elections' and electoral systems' potential to remove long-standing animosities and unify divergent factions under a stable institutionalised political order that resolves disagreements peacefully rather than violently.
According to some observers, newly democratising states are significantly more likely to experience civil unrest than established democracies because they lack the mechanisms developed by established democracies to manage disputes in ways that successfully avoid violence. And it is true that elections are inherently competitive since they are competitions between individuals, parties, and ideas. Elections are contentious, and they are designed to be so in order to highlight social choices.
An election system is made to accomplish three key tasks. It does this by first converting votes into seats gained in a legislative chamber. The electoral system may place more emphasis on proportionality between votes cast and seats gained, or it may channel votes however divided across parties into a legislature that is made up of two powerful parties with opposing ideologies. Second, electoral systems serve as a platform for the public to hold elected officials responsible. Third, different electoral systems encourage those vying for power to frame their appeals to the electorate in various ways, helping to structure the parameters of acceptable political discourse in various ways.