POLS 280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Plurality Voting System, Closed List, Open List
19 Oct 2016
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Candidates must undergo three selection processes to win: select themselves to run (eligible aspirant) Effect weather people in the eligibility pool are willing and able to run: selected by parties for nominations (aspirant candidate) institutional forces, selected by voters at the ballot box (candidate legislator) Supply whether those who are eligible are willing and able to run. Demand whether aspirants get nominated and then win at gen. elec. stage (key forces are institutional and cultural at these stages) Average portion of women mp"s elected in countries with different electoral systems. There is a pattern whereby electoral systems are linked to women getting elected and being put into positions of power. Single member plurality (smp) first past the post (winner take all) No representation in the house for the runner up why its called winner take all system. Runners up get representation: multiple members per electoral district, a party"s vote share = its share of legislative seats, open v. closed lists.
