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Constitutional Developments in Foreign Countries During 19101

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 September 2013

W. F. Dodd
W. F. Dodd
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University of Illinois
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In the summary of foreign constitutional developments, published in this Review for August, 1910, some attention was paid to the movements in Hungary and in Prussia for an extension of the suffrage. With respect to these movements it is sufficient now to say that nothing has yet been accomplished. In Prussia there seems to be no immediate prospect of reform; and the Prussian government, relying as it does for support in the Landtag upon the conservative parties which would suffer through an electoral reform, has declined to bring forward any further proposal for the liberalizing of the suffrage. In Hungary the Khuen-Héderváry ministry won the election of June, 1910, largely upon the program of electoral reform, but no project has yet been presented, and the delay is explained on the ground that it is necessary to await the results of the new census which was begun early in 1911. Although no announcements have been made it now seems that Count Andrássy's plan of plural voting will be abandoned, and that the “Magyar character of the Hungarian state” will be preserved by a scheme of apportioning members of the house of representatives in such a way as to give the Magyars a greater power than their numbers would justify.

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American Political Science Review , Volume 5 , Issue 3 , August 1911 , pp. 418 - 428
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Copyright © American Political Science Association 1911

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