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Presumably the delegating and recasting of votes that you recommend would involve the abolition of single-member districts. Why not implement proportional repre
by lambertsimnel 9y ago
Presumably the delegating and recasting of votes that you recommend would involve the abolition of single-member districts. Why not implement proportional representation as a stepping stone to your system?
Proportional representation is already widely used. Evidence shows it increases turnout and improves government in a wide range of ways.
- ivan_gammel 9y agoSorry, I don't know what country you are talking about, but it actually does not matter. I don't think that any restrictions like representation by political parties or geographic districts really make any sense. Modern political parties today are hostages of their own agenda and promises to the sponsors. They rot and smell and loose their power everywhere.
- lambertsimnel 9y agoProportional representation can do away with geographic districts and refuse to recognise political parties (though I don't know of country with proportional representation that does both). The US, Canada, France, the UK, Australia, Japan, the Republic of (South) Korea, Mexico and India are notable in lacking proportional representation for elections to their main legislative chambers. Most countries do use proportional representation, but I was guessing you weren't commenting from one of them, because satisfaction with democracy is higher where it is used. How would you implement your system in countries that don't already have proportional representation without 1st implementing proportional representation?