POLB50Y3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Fundamental Class, Responsible Government, Private Good
22 Mar 2013
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Polb52 lecture 10 march 21st, 2013. Countries have different political systems but you"ll notice certain general movements. Try to take theories to understand canadian politics. Majority means 50% plus 1 vote is the majority. There"s no direct translation to vote to power in canada. There are certain tendencies and properties of plurality system: single member plurality tendency is to reward the first place party to provide higher seat of house of commons than votes. Single member plurality gives majority party/ majority seats. Its tendency is to reward political party"s regionally concentrated support and punish parties that have votes spread evenly in canada lower shares of seats in the house of commons. We can think of this of political strategies parties are incentives to appeal to 1 narrow regional part of canada. If you look at differences of regional votes comparative small. It"s not the people, and not the culture. It"s usually the rules of the votes that create regional divides.
