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Yeah I don't think Lee is a super deep thinker and he gets a lot of basic things wrong. I corrected some of his obvious errors in this piece. https://thefulcru
by ClayShentrup 5y ago
Yeah I don't think Lee is a super deep thinker and he gets a lot of basic things wrong. I corrected some of his obvious errors in this piece.
https://thefulcrum.us/amp/actually-approval-voting-beats-rcv-a-rebuttal-2644658826 https://thefulcrum.us/amp/actually-approval-voting-beats-rcv...
As a general rule, it is true that plurality voting absolutely sucks. The vast majority of highly rated democracies use something different. The UK and US are ranked 16th and 25th respectively.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index
Taiwan and South Korea both use a significant amount of proportional representation.
But Drutman's biggest fallacy is thinking that you have to have proportional representation. Simple approval voting would plausibly have as big or greater impact.
- hash872 5y agoYou missed Canada at #5. And Taiwan (#11) & SK allocating around 15% of their seats to PR- recently, as in the last three years- I would not call a 'significant amount' of PR