POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Liberum Veto, Open List, Wield
4 Apr 2018
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It is rare but not completely gone in the world; it is most common in social groups, private organizations. In terms of government elections, it can be seen when two candidates are tied, random chance is then there to decide who wins the election (pei, yukon, nova scotia) Single member constituencies: one single candidate with the most votes wins. Norse word: thrithjunger that referred to cutting a piece of land into 3 parts, that world was translated into english as thrithiry and again corrupted into riding. In poland there are 3 different thresholds: political party 5, groups of parties 8, parties representing minorities have no artificial threshold. If the threshold is too low you get more parties, the more difficult it is to have your legislature work effectively: this is a practical reason. Have a threshold so its hard for radical parties to make it into the legislature.
