POLS 1150 Lecture Notes - Plurality Voting System, Single Transferable Vote, Electoral District

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

Document Summary

Why is representation so important? liberal democracy is a representative democracy the issue of representative autonomy. Proportional representation: multi member districts/constituencies high magnitude, low magnitude lower effective threshold complex voting: 3 single transferable vote list systems - where parties run lists instead. In a ren member constituency, you vote for a party list. You can rank that part list in an open list. In a closed list you have no control, just vote for the list. According to the proportional vote, the member get seats according to the list top to bottom. Negative - make the list in their favour. Positive - if you want more women put them at the top, or equality out man and woman. Mixed member proportional a mixture of majortarian plurality and proportional - an attempt to correct the extreme disproprtionality that a single member plurality can bring single member district proportional party vote (list) 5: electoral systems also affect polarization of parties.