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It is also a powerful force for forcing cooperation between political parties, which trade preference deals. This is a powerful force for centrism, an importan
by robbiep 9y ago
It is also a powerful force for forcing cooperation between political parties, which trade preference deals.
This is a powerful force for centrism, an important feature of stable democracies - compare australia’s Relatively centrist governmnents and political parties (despite what the stagnation we see at present) VS the vast and expanding gulf between us parties
- JoshTriplett 9y agoSo is a better rank-based system. I can't think of a single reason to prefer IRV over better rank-based voting systems, and plenty of reasons not to. I absolutely agree that our voting systems are part of the problem; first-past-the-post is broken.