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Which is why parliamentary systems are so much more stable than first-past-the-post. They let voters express their preferences, and leave building the coalitio
by roguecoder 10mo ago
Which is why parliamentary systems are so much more stable than first-past-the-post.
They let voters express their preferences, and leave building the coalitions up to the politicians. Instead of expecting voters to understand that their preferences are expressed during the primaries, and the general election is just to pick which coalition wins.
It is crazy that no one in America is promoting a Constitutional amendment to fix the basic governance.
- whimsicalism 10mo ago> Which is why parliamentary systems are so much more stable than first-past-the-post. I think these are somewhat orthogonal.
- marcosdumay 10mo agoYou can't have first-past-the-post in a parliamentary system. But yeah, that's the one dependency they have, otherwise, those are independent. You can even have weird districtal systems that look parliamentary and use first-past-the-post. Either way, majoritarian elections are a plague and must be avoided as much as possible.
- whimsicalism 10mo agoIsn't the UK FPTP in a parliamentary system?