POLSCI 1G06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Direct Democracy, Plurality Voting System

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Political science 1g06 2013 lecture 10a: institutionalizing democracy. Our political system is a representative democracy rather than a. Elected representatives in government are supposed to give voice to. The institutional mechanism chosen to sort millions of votes into a few hundred representatives is profoundly political. Dickerson and flanagan: the result obtained from an election depends upon the method that is employed . There are a number of institutional solutions to the problem of representation: single member plurality system first past the post winner takes all. This is the institutional procedure used in canada, britain, us. It is marked by a distortion between the votes cast and the electoral outcomes produced. Parties with geographically concentrated support may see their. Parties with support that is spread too thin geographically may see influence magnified their influence reduced. Some problems with respect to the democratic character of the results: It tends to suppress the political power of minorities.

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