National Advisory Board
In the Blogosphere
This page provides a list of recent external blog postings about proportional representation, Fair Vote Canada, and electoral reform.
kirbycairo: Some Problems of Democracy. . . . .
The upshot of this discussion is that it has deepened my commitment to some form of Proportional representation. Though PR systems have their own drawbacks, they ensure that the individual representatives can vote for those who elected ...
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http://kirbycairo.blogspot.com/2010/09/some-problems-of-democracy.html Caroline Lucas: Ed and David should support more options for AV ...
... to choose from a wider range of voting systems – including the additional member system (as used in the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (as used in Northern Ireland). ...
Opinion: the Australian election and AV
There is of course a perfectly good system which allows for both fairness and preferential voting. it is called the Single Transferable Vote and it is supported by formal Lib Dem policy – AV is not. Paul McKeown ...
Democracies with proportional voting systems are 'good citizens ...
The coalition government will shortly announce plans for a reformed House of Lords or Senate that is wholly or predominantly elected using a full proportional representation system. Taken in conjunction with the UK's long-run transition ...
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http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/?p=3899 Lessons from down under on electoral reform | openDemocracy
But submerged as they are in a Tory dominated coalition it seems that they are content to pick up any electoral reform scraps thrown from the table. Meanwhile none of the front running candidates for the leadership of New Labour (or as ...
AV is not the only vote | Edward McMillan-Scott | United Kingdom News
Now is the time, with a wholly new political landscape, to consider whether the wording of the coalition agreement could embrace a third choice on the referendum ballot paper – the single transferable vote (STV). ...
Is the modern partisan majority dead? | Progressive Fix
And just about every other major industrial democracy relies on some version of proportional representation, resulting in multi-party governing coalitions of varying stability. India obviously is an astoundingly heterogeneous country, ...
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http://www.progressivefix.com/is-the-modern-partisan-majority-dead Proportional representation is the only way forward for Australia ...
Proportional representation allows all voters a degree of influence on the political process. Proportional systems typically use political parties as the measure of representation. For example, a party that receives 15% of the votes ...
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. ...
'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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http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/08/24/the-one-exception-is-canada/