<論考>安定化した政党政治: 第3回イラク地方県議会選挙の分析

Abstract

This paper analyzes the process of coalition-making and the result of the third provincial election, which was held on April 20 and June 20, 2013 in Iraq. Through detailed analysis of the coalition-making process as well as the patterns of the results in each province, this paper concludes the following three points: First, most, if not all parties attempted to form party-coalitions strategically. The main parties, which had a certain number of seats in the parliament, reorganized their alliance into six huge coalitions. The other parties also reorganized their alliances into bigger party coalitions. Second, as a result of this strategic coalition-making, the main parties maintained their votes while the other parties remarkably increased their seats by avoiding the dispersion of votes among one another. Third, all these changes resulted in the stabilization of party politics in Iraq in the 6th election (including national ones) in the 10 years since the U.S. invasion of Iraq.