POLI 130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Fatah, Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service, Proportional Representation
22 Apr 2016
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No dem w/o elections, no stability w/o dem. 9 electoral systems that are seen as democratic. Fptp, av (alt vote), block vote, 2 round, parallel, sntv, mmp (mixed-member prop), Fptp: single-member districts, whoever wins the most votes than everyone else is elected. Av (australia): rank them by preference, 1~whatever, which effectively says that your vote may be deferred down the line based on whether the candidate has too few votes or gets knocked out. This leads to broad appeal and having to get more than 50% of the vote to win, since there"s minority aggregation. Very effective at cutting through social divides, but many places choose against av because there"s a lack of power, etc. In nz and germ, you vote for a candidate and a party, which gives local and national feel. It"s growing in appeal because they remove some disadvantages of both fptp and pr.
