POG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Plurality Voting System, Electoral District, Campaign Advertising

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POG 110
• Professor: Tracey Raney

Document Summary

Pog 110 - power and influence in canadian politics. Participation: elections allow citizens to directly partake in the decision making process (volunteering, individual representative, working with elections, working with parties) Secrecy & privacy: in a democracy, we expect our ballot be private and not feel forced to vote a certain way. Not the case in some totalitarian countries where votes are often forced. Transparency: should know the rules of the electoral system, know how our votes are going to be translated into a seat. Fairness: should be one person, one vote (may wash away some communities of interest (indigenous, quebecers) Conservatives fair elections act: had implication on how much money would be injected in the. In a federal election, before day 1, elections canada will set a spending limit for each party and is based on how many candidates will run in each party. Elections canada set a limit of million for the four major parties.