POLSCI 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Plurality Voting System, Direct Democracy, Proportional Representation
5 Dec 2018
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Elector system: filters from mass amount of population to just a small amount of people. Our political system is a representative democracy rather than a. Elected representatives (in theory) give voice to the will of the people. The institutional mechanism chosen to allocate votes to representatives is profoundly political. Electoral systems play a significant role in determining electoral outcomes. There are a number of different electoral systems in use amongst the world"s democracies: plurality/majority electoral systems (winner takes all, single member plurality system first past the post. Every voter has one vote to cast (person who got the most votes wins and the second place person gets kicked out) This is the institutional procedure used in canada, britain, u. s. It is marked by a distortion between the votes cast and the electoral outcomes produced. Parties with geographically concentrated support may see their influence magnified. Parties with support that is spread too thin geographically may see their influence reduced.
