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Why should we care about elections?
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-democratic legitimacy
-reveal democratic preferences -accountability |
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Why should we care about specific electoral rules?
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-translates votes to seats
-to avoid distortions |
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Non proportional system types
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-single member plurality
-FFTP |
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Non proportional system advantages
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-less worry
-quick -simple -stable |
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Threshold effects
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Big splits caused from a set of small swing votes (in 2 party systems)
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Gerrymandering
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When a party drawing up the eletoral line distorts ridings to give an advantage to some group
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Run Off
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-majoritarian
-numerous elections until one candidate gets a majority, while dropping lowest candidate |
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IRV
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Instant runoff voting
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Preferential voting
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-PV
-ranks candidates in one single round of voting |
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Single transferable vote
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-STV
-list of candidates, have to rank them -not limited to within a party |
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Party list
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-vote for a party, and then the party allocates seats
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Proportional systems
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-allocates seats in district according to a proportion of votes won by that party
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Pros of PR
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-truer representation
-no wasted votes |
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Cons of PR
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-complex voting
-fragmentation -instability -no geographic issue solutions |
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Spatial theory of voting
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-you vote for the party closest to you in ideology therefore parties converge in the middle to find median voter
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