POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Disneymania, Open List, Closed List

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 1150
• Professor: Mark Yanisziewski

Document Summary

Lecture 18: electoral systems (il) february 27. Reading: valerie heitshusen, garr(cid:455) young, and david m. wood, electoral conte(cid:454)t and mp. Constituency focus in australia, canada, ireland, new zealand, and the united kingdom, Plurality: whoever gets the most votes overall, two systems: single member constituencies and multi-member constituencies. Single member constituencies: most common, vote for one specific person, top individual to get the most votes wins the election. Proportional representation: other most common way of elections is pr (proportional representation, number of seats party gets depends on share of votes party get, 23% of vote = approx. Parties list: each party provides list equivalent to seats, a party list is every party"s list of 100 names- 23% means the first 23 people on the list get elected, common in europe, etc. Low end of spectrum: mexico 2, albania 2. 5, most thresholds between 5-8, high end of spectrum, turkey 10%