POLI 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Liberal Democracy, People'S Party For Freedom And Democracy, Party System
11 Feb 2017
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Elections are calculations for political parties: translate votes into parliamentary seats, different formulas shape political behaviour, strategies, policies, individuals, calculating who holds political power transfer of seats in parliament (lower house) In liberal democracies, one person has one vote: choice at election time vs. vote at election time, different electoral systems may give citizens more than one choice, but always one vote. Electoral systems have affect in how political parties engage. Overall turnout is perhaps the most important calculation. Has a generally high turnout rate than north america. Due to the stronger role of political parties and stronger unions and interest groups that feed into the vote engaging voters. Sense that electoral rules in europe give voters more choice. Drops, but is still at a respectable rate. Two major types of electoral systems: smp and rp. Commonality: party winning the most seats leads government. District represented by one person in parliament.
