Political Polarization: What the US Can Learn From Latin America
Brookings Institution
In contrast, coalition multiparty presidential regimes based on proportional representation that are common in Latin America can illustrate some potential benefits. In the United States, there is a biased assumption that the proportional system is ...

Motion would move country closer to voting reform: Fair Vote Canada
Northumberland Today
NORTHUMBERLAND -- The NDP is to bring a motion for debate today that will call for the establishment of a Special Committee for Democratic Improvement, says the head of Fair Vote Canada, Brownwen Bruch. ...

Layton proposes referendum on Senate
Winnipeg Free Press
Wayne Smith, executive director of Fair Vote Canada, said anyone who has ever studied the issue of voting has come to the conclusion that Canada should adopt proportional representation. "The voting system we have is antique," said Smith. ...

Orders of the Day - Dude, where's our opposition day?
CBC.ca (blog)
... until Wednesday -- the shortest sitting day of the week -- thus curtailing what would otherwise have been a full day of glorious debate over the merits and drawbacks of proportional representation and the future of the Senate to a mere two hours. ...

The Conservatives do protest too much, wethinks
Globe and Mail
A government seriously wishing to forestall that possibility would be negotiating with one or two of the other parties to find common ground, as happens in other countries with proportional representation systems where minority governments are the norm ...