الهندسة الانتخابية: الاهداف و الاستراتيجيات، و علاقتها بالنظم السياسية

The research paper starts from the basic concepts and premises of electoral engineering, in terms of its role in democratic consolidation, raising political representation, and improving the efficiency of electoral systems in representation and governance. Political systems, despite the importance of political engineering in building institutions and strengthening and consolidating democracy, but it is not a sure guarantee for democratic transformation, especially in the case of employing political engineering to renew the legitimacy of authoritarian regimes, which is witnessed by the reality of the electoral system in the Arab world and in Algeria in particular, which It witnessed a series of changes, in its form and content, which ultimately led to the formation of an electoral system through a set of repeated practices and through the method of enacting electoral laws, aimed at consolidating an existing situation, and setting limits and restrictions on the possibility of conducting fair and transparent elections. competitiveness, and the possibility of political change through elections, given the absence of a set of legal and constitutional guarantees, and guarantees at the level of monitoring procedures and conducting electoral process.