Masque of Democracy: Iraqi Election System Still Disfavors Sunni Arabs, Favors Kurds

(printable PDF version) (HTML version) by Carl Conetta, PDA Briefing Memo #35, 10 December 2005. The memo assesses Iraqi election procedures for the December 2005 parliamentary elections. It detects problems of structural bias and shows how the procedures feed communal tensions. Includes table of province populations and assigned council seats.