POL101Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Gerrymandering, Party System, Instant-Runoff Voting
28 Mar 2016
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Political science lecture 5: electoral system and representation. Obligates citizen to abide by government laws and policies. Direct democracy: come to a census, making decisions by themselves. Referendum is an example (piece of policy submitted for the public or approval or disapproval). Proposition 8 in california only marriage between a man and woman is valid or recognized in california have to get valid signatures. Huge advertising campaigns for and against same sex marriage. It did pass, most propositions are not well known. Representative democracy: all you have to do is vote for someone to make decisions. Initially male white property owner were allowed to vote, excluded, race, gender and class. Class was abolished for limiting the franchise, having to be a property owner is the first one that disappears. than white is demolished and finally around ww1 they extended the voting ability to woman. Not always true that gender follows race,
