Sentences with phrase «majoritarian system»

I now think there is both a strategic / pragmatic case for AV, but also (in the right broader reform package) a good argument for it being good to have a pluralist majoritarian system for the Commons, within an entrenched written constitution and with a PR - elected second chamber.

I do think the case that FPTP as a working majoritarian system is very weak: those who back this should now be arguing for a directly elected PM or government, presumably using the London Mayoral system.

[3]: 95 However because up to half the parliamentary seats are list rather than district seats, the districts are necessarily up to twice as large as with a plurality / majoritarian system where all representatives serve single - member districts.

In proportional representation (PR) systems the influence of the floating voter is less than in first - past - the - post majoritarian systems typical in neo-liberal market economies such as Britain and the US.

But there are different objectives here.One case for majoritarian systems is that they offer a clearer choice of governments; the central case for PR is about the representativeness of the assembly.

Majoritarian systems can and do have a strong sense of public legitimacy (for example, those which directly elect a head of government, particularly where there are other checks and balances); part of the argument here would be that individual MPs would have greater legitimacy under AV because they need a majority of their local vote.

Such arrangements are true of all parliamentary parties in a majoritarian system.

A majoritarian system like FPTP or AV is OK for choosing a government, so long as the power that the government can exercise is itself constrained by some form of democratic proportionality.

Like all majoritarian systems, the Condorcet Paradox and the issue of majority tyranny will still be things to look out for.

The irony of this initiative is that it illustrates a willingness to play politics with the constitution for short - term, partisan gain that is likely to compound the crisis of the majoritarian system which it seeks to perpetuate.

The AVP system is mostly a majoritarian system with some elements of proportionality.

But ultimately, if you want to be methodical about it, you have to look at the policy record across a large number of countries over a long stretch of time, comparing outcomes under PR and majoritarian systems.

Broadly, I prefer PR to majoritarian systems, though I can see why people find the opposite argument persuasive too.

In a majoritarian system, however, its often convenient to lump different sides of an issue as left or right, and so we do.

So very few people seriously argue for a majoritarian system for the Upper House, and certainly nobody with a serious interest in the politics of making reform happen.

Er, AV IS a majoritarian system.

Chris Terry and Jess Garland argue that the result shows that the First Past the Post electoral system is now chronically out of date, with territorial and cultural divisions being hardened by a crude, majoritarian system.

In terms of this specific criterion of fairness (vote - seat proportionality), which is the one I explicitly refer to in the article, PR systems are going to be, as a general matter, better than majoritarian systems.