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Protect Democracy’s Ben Raderstorf and FairVote’s Mike Parsons have written this piece on the lessons that today’s reformers can learn from the wave of electoral systems reform that swept through ...
From independent presidential bids to third-parties, several prominent businessmen have tried to upend America's two-party ...
The Labour Party is currently both the Government and the opposition in the Westminster Parliament. They were not tears shed over his biggest political failure, nor over the cold support given by ...
To save pubic funds, no parliamentary elections will be held in multi-mandate electoral districts to replace the lawmakers no longer performing their duties. A group of Kyrgyz parliamentarians led by ...
Caste may politically trump the current majoritarian project built on oppressive invisibility of caste power and perpetuate the rule of the communal majority. Views expressed are the authors' own.
The majoritarian system also means the electoral contest becomes focused on a minority of electorates while most remain safe, thus creating incentives to focus attention on some areas while ...
Many of the major defects of Fiji’s present electoral system could be remedied if there were multiple constituencies. Electoral Law Reform Co ...
He’s an unlikely pin-up for electoral reform campaigners — but a 2029 surge that’s not matched by House of Commons seats could see Farage turn up the heat on a “rigged” system.
In this event, we are pleased to invite Dr Willy Jou to deliver a talk on the impact of electoral reform on party systems in Japan and Taiwan. Japan and Taiwan undertook major electoral reform in the ...
Countries with proportional systems also have greater social welfare spending and provide more public goods than those with majoritarian systems (this is largely because the electoral fortunes of ...
After a majority voted yes, a new electoral law created a mixed-member majoritarian system that combined features of single-member districts with proportional representation for both chambers.