Oct 13, 2023 · What system of proportional representation would America realistically adopt while not radically altering its fundamental institutions (that isn't RCV or something similar)?

Jun 20, 2024 · Under any system with at-large/national proportional equalization they will still be represented provided they're popular enough nationally by reserving or adding leveling seats. …

Proportional representation tends to slow down the legislative body. It's a lot harder to form a working government when there is a whole heap of kind-of-not-big-enough parties.

I'm not certain proportional representation does require multi-member districts. The German system is specifically a system designed to be a proportional representation system with single-member …

Apr 26, 2022 · Proportional Representation is appearing as a bigger and bigger issue in levelling the political systems back up. As I underatand it, in many parts of the world, rather than each person's …

Portland is about to become the biggest city to use proportional representation to elect its city council members. What are the chances of a state doing this in the next 10-15 years?

First if you want to change to proportional representation you'd have to have a two ballot / mixed electoral system because of the size of Canada with all of it's rural communities. The first ballot …

Jun 10, 2021 · Proportional representation is absolutely fucking dope. I'd love proportional representation w/ a party list and a primary election for each party's list, but that's a lot harder to get …

May 14, 2023 · Proportional representation requires officially recognizing parties, and can take more work to work out all of the rules and what to do in interesting circumstances (things like parties …

The main problems with proportional representation (PR) are that (a) because of party lists, there is usually no direct representation of certain regions and (b) it becomes much harder to get rid of a …