Assessment of the electoral reform of 2008 on the General Election of 2011

• Main Authors: Suleiman, Shuaibu, Muhammed, Senusi
• 格式: Conference or Workshop Item
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2020
• 主題: JZ International relations
• 在線閱讀: http://repo.uum.edu.my/28037/1/INSORPAD%202020%20379%20396.pdf; http://repo.uum.edu.my/28037/

The study assessed the electoral reform of 2008 on the general election of 2011, with the main objective to determine the effect of the reform on the 2011 general election. The study is anchored on structural functionalism or the structural functionalist theory propounded by Varma (1975). The study adopted documentary design as a methodology for the study, is concerned with the analysis of documents that contain information about a given phenomenon under investigation. The data used in this study is the number of election petition filled at the tribunals for 2007 and 2011, to analyze the data percentages and bar chart was used. The study found that, the 2008 electoral reform didn’t decreased the irregularities in the electoral system as shown in the increased in the number of litigation's before the tribunal. The study concluded that, the implementation of the 2008 electoral reform has no positive effect on the outcome of the 2011 general election. The study recommended among-st others that, electoral reforms that are electorates incline should be thoughtful, such reform that is capable of educating the electorate and rehabilitates our political ideology from the old ways of manipulations and illegalities through political sensitization and acceptable awareness.