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Good luck with the reform but without approval voting or similar electoral reform, they risk getting stuck with a polarized political system and electorate (muc
by yawaramin 4y ago
Good luck with the reform but without approval voting or similar electoral reform, they risk getting stuck with a polarized political system and electorate (much like the US now).
- yorwba 4y agoKazakhstan is already using proportional representation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kazakh_legislative_election#Electoral_system https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Kazakh_legislative_electi... The bigger problem so far have been restrictions on which parties are allowed to run in the first place. (Hence Tokayev's statement that "We’re ushering in a new era of pluralism by abolishing constraints on the registration and formation of political parties.")
- yawaramin 4y agoYeah hence my original comment. Imho proportional rep doesn't actually solve the issue, it punts it towards the other end of the power spectrum where you get eternally deadlocked governments because no one has enough power to push through meaningful changes. Approval voting is the simplest way of fairly building that support base.