POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Antisemitism
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Ontario different from the government in ontario and toronto: fiscal imbalance, municipalities are creatures of the province, province govts can change the municipalities without legally seeking, the charter of rights and freedoms, this semester (lecture 15 24) consent of the city at all, political parties are organizations that aim to acquire political power by contesting elections. Electoral systems (ie. who can vote?: voting method (eg. one vote, multiple votes, run off, ranked votes, etc), ballot (eg. candidates, parties, party list), vote counting (ie. how votes translate into seats; eg, vote counting (ie. how votes translate into seats; eg. thresholds, plurality, majority, proportionality, etc), districting (eg. number of districts, district magnitude (ie. number of winners per district, proportionality (ie. correspondence between seats and votes, elasticity (ie. how much a change in votes effects a change in seats), definition of our political system: canada has a single member.