POLI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Representative Democracy, Direct Democracy, Presidential System
15 Oct 2014
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Crucial to any political system, especially democratic ones. Can be comparatively examined through institutional arrangements or functions performed. Gov became more assertive : forum for addressing of public grievances, control of state treasuries. Huge deal: monarch can"t spend whatever they want has to consult gov: control of military levy. Representatives are elected from a geographical districted. Except: israel , peru, netherlands, whole country : 1 constituency: combines proportional representation and a low threshold for representation (2% in irsrael, 0. 67% in the netherlands) How large should constituencies be? (is it a #s game?) Who should draw the boundaries: elections in canada, state legislature. How is representation going to work: big states: should represent the population reps in ratio of pop, smaller states: each state gets the same # of reps. Each state has 2 senators: wyoming 2 senators, 1 representatives, california: 2 senators, 53 representatives. House of representatives and the senate create laws, etc.
