Electoral Reform

A radical idea for party funding reform: one-person-one-card ...

As with the British Columbia citizens' assembly, which considered electoral reform, the citizens would be free to deliberate on all the options, and choose the best of them to be put to the electorate in a referendum. ...
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Guy Aitchison

'The one exception is Canada' - Beyond The Commons - Macleans.ca

In light of the Australian result, Patrick Dunleavy with the London School of Economics surveys the world's major Westminster parliaments, the state of governance and the possibility of electoral reform. Although Duverger's Law is ...
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Aaron Wherry

The slow death of the "Westminster model" | openDemocracy

Dunleavy produces the following table showing the dynamics favouring electoral reform in five key Westminster model countries as they move towards multi-party systems in which hung parliaments are increasingly the norm. ...
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Guy Aitchison

Nick Clegg: Coalition will go on even without electoral reform ...

Nick Clegg says reform of the electoral system is not his 'sole purpose in life'. Photograph: Reuters Nick Clegg today risked the anger of the Liberal Democrat grassroots by suggesting he would not abandon the coalition with the Tories ...
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Vote, Check, Stalemate « Pop The Stack

The real solution is to introduce some kind of electoral reform, partly proportional representation, ranked voting, lists — I don't care, anything would be better than this. Then Quebec would get just as much representation as they do ...
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Mark Crowley

Last in Turn Out and on Electoral Reform : the Commons

Last in Turn Out and on Electoral Reform. Scott H. Payne. August 16, 2010 | No Comments. Pivoting off of my interview with David Frum, Aaron Wherry of Macleans notes that Frum is correct regarding declining voter turnout, but then also ...
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Shedding the AV mask: lessons from Australia | Bright Green

Alternatively, the Senate, which operates on a state-based Proportional Representation, both have gained a much larger control. Although voters vote differently in Upper & Lower house elections, the difference of 6 versus 0 is a clear ...
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Adam Ramsay

Charlottetown voters will participate in plebiscite on possible electoral reform - Charlottetown, The Guardian

Charlottetown voters will participate in plebiscite on possible electoral reformCharlottetown, The GuardianIn addition to voting for a mayor and councillor, voters will be asked to participate in a plebiscite on possible electoral reform.

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