Essays Tagged: "electoral system"
ELECTORAL REFORM IN CANADA: AN EXAMINATION OF PROPORTIONAL REPRESENTATION
es in a democracy is a central element in how their society will work. This process is known as the electoral system and because of their importance in liberal democracies, electoral systems have freq ... liberal democracies, electoral systems have frequently been the focus of intense scholarly debate. Electoral reform in Canada has been a main focus of these debates and "proportional representation ( ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Question: Do electoral systems effect the type and form of government resultant from the election? Contrasting France and England
Electoral systems are the methods a country uses to select its officials. They are rarely drasticall ... stically altered but are constantly changed to reflect shifting values. The reason for this is that electoral systems are very reflective of the entrenched cultural political ideals of a country. The ... referred to as "first past the post") and proportional representation highlight the potential of an electoral system to affect the structure of government.In a first past the post system the candidate ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
How far could the 3rd Reform Act be justifiably called a turning point?
s who moved frequently from one rented accommodation to another. Although the 1867 Act did take the electoral system into previously uncharted territory. Disreali intended to make the step a very tent ... er although the 3rd Reform Act was successful, the success was limited. The 3rd Reform Act made the electoral system far more representative than ever before but Britain was still not a democracy. All ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Equal rights of women
it will ensure that women will have a active voice in our government just as men do. In Canada our electoral system is "a winner take all" system,, which the winning political party forms the governm ... uota system has pros and cons to it but if established it must be fair to women and men because our electoral system is a winners take all but men do win more so if the system is established it could ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Current Issues
Electoral Systems of Germany and Finland
Two Countries and governments that have electoral system similarities are those of Germany and Finland. They both use systems of the proport ... l parties after elections. The system was developed by a Belgian man, Victor d'Hondt, to be used in electoral systems based on proportional representation. Austria, Portugual, Switzerland, and Finland ... ies.The SystemIn the 1980's, the country of Finland was divided for national elections into fifteen electoral constituencies. Fourteen of them sent between seven and twenty-seven representatives to th ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
Aaron Burr Essay
med that the outcome of the national election would follow that in New York, but under the confused electoral system then in use Jefferson and Burr received an equal number of electoral votes for he p ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
By 1928 all the essentials of democracy had been achieved. Discuss
nd 1928 there was significant progress in the search for a more democratic Britain and although the electoral system was not wholly perfect, the essentials of democracy had been achieved. There were m ... measured achievement of universal adult suffrage; the elimination of corruption and the control of electoral expenditure; the extension of the constituencies and the limitation of the powers of House ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
Electoral Politics
9;牋牋牋My book is all about election. To begin with, it talks about election and electoral politics, like choices of human being in elections, basic ideas of human being in general ... explanation about five things: they are the principles, types, structure, operation and function of electoral politics.牋牋牋牋In the principle field, it talks about the genera ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Japanese Political Reform
rats, and the ignoring of other institutional and societal factors, resulted in the altering of the electoral system that would function as an answer for everything that was wrong with Japanese politi ... orm package was an increased influence of urban voters on Japanese politics due to the redrawing of electoral boundaries. In addition, the legal responsibility of the Diet candidate for the illegal ac ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Define the three factors (political, sociological and institutional) which affect Australian Elections?
Institutional factors:Institutional factors relate to the type of the electoral system used in an election. Institutional factors that can influence the election include ... another major factor that can influence an election. Gerrymanders allow governments to redistribute electoral boundaries. Governments are then able to win more seats by reducing vote wastage in safe s ... the marginal seats. This tends to favor the government because they have majority support to change electoral boundaries.Malapportionment is another institutional factor which may affect the election ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Canada's Electoral System
For decades, academics and political leaders have analyzed existing electoral systems and, consequently, argued about the optimal way to translate votes into seats in t ... slate votes into seats in the most democratic fashion.Increasing legitimacy and democracy within an electoral system are often viewed as the foundation for reform, and recent years have seen a growing ... een a growing number of Canadians questioning the legitimacy of Canada's first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system and the fashion in which it regionalizes political party representation in Parliame ...
Subjects: Area & Country Studies Essays
The Electoral College Should Be Abolished: Persuasive Research Paper
ident who in the end was not determined the winner. There are many other corruptions in our current electoral system, including the underlying racist and sexist roots, voter inequality and other flaws ... nciple. The only solution and the only way this country could be truly democratic is to abolish the Electoral College.The way a winner is found in most every level of professionalism (high school gove ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Why were the liberals out of power for so long between 1889 -1905?
hat chamberlain left the party. Also, with the conservatives growing in numbers and a reform of the electoral system the liberals had little hope of winning again, despite their best efforts to fix vo ... m Act and the 1885 Redistribution of Seats Act. The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 was a piece of electoral reform legislation that redistributed the seats in the House of Commons again in an attemp ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
Reviving American Democracy
y voters feel that their participation does not matter, while others simply do not like the way our electoral system is set up. Nonvoting in America is a result of the flaws in America's voting laws a ... in presidential and congressional elections.Reforming the American political system by changing the Electoral College rules to require proportional representation in each state's allocation of its ele ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Government
Devolution: Compare differences between Scottish Parliament and Westminster
ot getting equally heard in the House of Commons. The Scottish Parliament, however, has adopted the electoral system known as Proportional Representation, in particular, the Additional Member System ( ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
The Liberal Democratic Process
ower is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. The first form of democracy practiced was direct democracy or pure democracy. This ... r leaders. A single member district is no matter how many candidates, only one will be chosen. This electoral district is used in the United States. Candidates are elected by popularity and having the ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory
We Should Abolish the Electoral System
ident who in the end was not determined the winner. There are many other corruptions in our current electoral system, including the underlying racist and sexist roots, voter inequality and other flaws ... nciple. The only solution and the only way this country could be truly democratic is to abolish the Electoral College.The way a winner is found in most every level of professionalism (high school gove ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science
Democracy in my opinon
ower is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. I understand that meaning of the term democracy is rule by the people. Although wh ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Problems with the Electoral College
Trent Harris Government Period 5 � PAGE �1� Problems with the Electoral CollegeTrent HarrisTeacher: Ms. ScottPeriod 5GovernmentWho is really voting for our presid ... n involving Bush and Gore has impassioned a fifty-year old debate. The dispute is about whether the Electoral College is still a valuable system considering the situations the United States now faces ... situations the United States now faces compared to when it was created by our founding fathers. The Electoral College gives disproportionate voting power to the states, favoring the smaller states wit ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
Are we witnessing the demise of the "Westminster model" in the UK?
rty and cabinet dominance still shapes British politics, the constitution is still flexible and the electoral system still produces disproportional results during general elections. A strict following ... nd bare-majority cabinet is the perfect embodiment of the principle of majority rule . The UKs electoral system, as long as it remains first past the post, will continue to follow one of the main ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Politicians