POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Brian Mulroney, Beer In Poland, Gerrymandering
5 Dec 2016
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Simplicity easy to explain and understand, easy to vote, easy to count the votes. Mps in the plurality system spend somewhere between 50-80% of their time communicating with the people of their riding: mps in other electoral systems also do constituency work, but they just don"t do as much of it. Studies show that mps of the plurality system spend dramatically more time doing constituency work than mps of other systems. In pr systems, candidates sometimes would rather work towards moving up on their party list than doing constituency work. Stable majorities the plurality system is more likely to result in the election of a majority government than the pr system is. This allowed us to get through the eventual recession in far better shape than other countries. Some humorous special parties include: 1991 in poland, the polish beer drinkers party won 3. 27% of the vote which equaled 16 seats (they use pr)
