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Ways of “tweaking” PR
- Multiplying # of districts, decreasing DM
- Thresholds
- Allowing voters some degree of preference voting
- Closed-list systems vs. open-list systems
Generally, the more “tweaks” a country introduces, the less proportional the result |
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| What is true of the parts of a whole must be true of the whole, without there being adequate justification for the claim. |
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| Proportional representation |
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| Each party gets the proportional number of seats depending on the votes they get |
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- Complex of social, economic, and political processes
- That enables all members of a society to share in opportunities for education, employment, civic participation, and social and cultural fulfillment as human beings
HDI |
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| The number of legislative seats assigned to a district, ranging anywhere from the exclusive use of single-member districts to a system where the entire country functions as a single district. |
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