GOVT1641 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Proportional Representation
6 May 2020
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Early labour/democratic parties in australia mass party. Labour party: made a pledge that when they get elected, they will follow through with their ideologies. When they were elected in 1991: end up not following the platform but people who did not like the platform were kicked out of the party. Shift power away from leadership to this group of people. Use language, expression, images, research of people"s wants. Merges every 4 years in election time. Take a petition on whether law should be passed. Plurality: in british empire house of commons. Proportional representation: latin america and western europe. Number of representatives elected from a given district to the same legislative body. Minimum share of the primary votes are needed to win a seat in legislature. In nsw senate need 757,712 votes to win. Germany and austria use formal exclusionary thresholds because of their history with extremist parties. Netherlands need 0. 67% to get a seat in parliament.
