POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Voter Fatigue, Single Transferable Vote

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

Document Summary

What they have in common: both try to combine the plurality and the pr systems. In one election they use plurality and one election in pr and they happen on the same day. Japan: half legislature are elected using plurality and the other half are elected by pr. In taiwan its 1/4 pr and 3/4 plurality: point is to give voice and representation to voters who voted for a candidate in their riding that did not win, there voice is in the legislature. parallel in the sense they are done simultaneously but otherwise they are not connected: add up the totals between the two elections whoever has the most votes is the party that represents. Strengths: that it"s the (cid:271)est of (cid:271)oth (cid:449)orlds: (cid:449)e still ha(cid:448)e the pros of (cid:271)oth s(cid:455)ste(cid:373)s; (cid:455)ou get the (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:374)e(cid:272)tio(cid:374) and the proper representation, political efficacy is improved; which should increase voter turn out. ; surveys say that people are unhappy with the new system.