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Australia is a good model for proportional representation. At its simplest, congressional districts would become larger multi-winner districts with ranked choic
by burlesona 6y ago
Australia is a good model for proportional representation. At its simplest, congressional districts would become larger multi-winner districts with ranked choice voting. The top N vote getters become representatives. The expected outcome would then be that districts would tend to have 1-2 representatives from each major party, and specifically that we’d end up with more parties as alternatives to red and blue. So perhaps in NY the Green Party starts getting seats, while in Iowa maybe it’s the Libertarians.
One goal is actually to decentralize politics. Increasingly today elections are fought on national brand, not local issues, hence the “NY wants to manage Iowa” problem.
I recently read a great book on this and would highly recommend it if you want a deep dive on this topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244963-breaking-the-two-party-doom-loop https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44244963-breaking-the-tw...
- rayiner 6y agoI had never thought of multi-winner districts. And thank you for the reference!