CPO-3703 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Handicap Principle, Second Vatican Council, President Of The United States
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A: electoral systems are the rules that translate votes cast in an election into seats won by parties and candidates: geographical, ideological, party/political, descriptive. Descriptive representation: the extent to which the rules ensure the (cid:498)consequential for representation, elite coordination, government responsiveness and accountability(cid:499) Representation is the activity of making citizens(cid:495) voices, opinions and perspectives (cid:498)present(cid:499) in the public policy making process. legislature is (cid:498)a reflection(cid:499) of society with respect to gender, race, class, Disproportional with respect to the losers(cid:495) representation in the legislature, (cid:498)winner take all(cid:499) elections. Majoritarian systems allocate seats to particular districts, where candidates geography, the geographic concentration of votes is especially important in majoritarian systems ethnicity (or other similarly vested interest). Whereas voters in majoritarian systems are represented on the basis of. Majoritarian systems (or parties) seem pluralities or majorities. Proportionality in legislative representation is manufactured with respect to vote share in the electorate. Relatively strong ideological, political and descriptive representation.
