ABSTRACT
Second main strategy is electoral system. The inventories of measures for conflict reduction have as their common goal the politics of interethnic moderation and conciliation, the difference is the means, and it is here that the electoral system receives a lot of emphasis. Consociationlists recommend Proportional Representation (PR) system as a way of avoiding minority exclusion. On the other hand, Horowitz prescribes the plurality plus distribution or alternative voting methods that are majoritarian, but could produce politics of moderation in divided societies. They work by requiring parties to reach across to groups to obtain electoral support. Thus, politicians have to reach out and accommodate not because they are altruistic, but because their self-interests require that they do so. As bridges are built, so group interests get intertwined overtime to yield conciliatory institutions (Hortowitz, 1991, p. 150; 1998, p. 10). This incentive approach, according to Horowitz, must apply to all elected officials for it to be effective.
