Εκλογικά συστήματα και δημοκρατία – συγκρίσεις με νόημα
poleconomix.gr
Αντιγράφω δύο σύντομες επιστολές αναγνωστών προς την Διευθύντρια έκδοσης της Economist, στο τεύχος της 30 Απριλίου 2022. Δημοσιεύτηκαν υπό τον τίτλο “Big majorities are a problem”.
“Presumably many Conservative voters now recognise that the good-chap approach to governance has ceased to be effective, if it ever were… As long as a government can obtain a majority of 80 seats on 44% of the vote, any prime minister can change any governance rule they like. After Boris Johnson’s historic lawbreaking, will defenders of the status quo still argue that the first-past-the-post voting system brings stability and strong government? Or will One Nation Tories realise that the democratic values and the rule of law they claim to value would benefit from a more representative voting system with better accountability?
KATHRINE SANTOS
Executive member
Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform
London
Viktor Orban won an election with roughly half the vote…, but, “thanks to gerrymandering”, two-thirds of the parliamentary seats… In the British election of 2019 the Tories won 44% of the vote and 56% of the seats, and in 1983 42% of the vote and 61% of the seats. Clearly Britain’s electoral system is more unfit for purpose than Hungary’s, even without gerrymandering.
Òscar Jordà, Fernanda Nechio Whereas the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic saw a steep decline in inflation globally, the end of the pandemic marked the
Charles Wyplosz 8 Jun 2023 https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/jacques-melitz Jacques Melitz, who passed away in May 2023, was a prolific and unusual economist who made contributions to the
Εκλογικά συστήματα και δημοκρατία – συγκρίσεις με νόημα
poleconomix.gr
Αντιγράφω δύο σύντομες επιστολές αναγνωστών προς την Διευθύντρια έκδοσης της Economist, στο τεύχος της 30 Απριλίου 2022. Δημοσιεύτηκαν υπό τον τίτλο “Big majorities are a problem”.
“Presumably many Conservative voters now recognise that the good-chap approach to governance has ceased to be effective, if it ever were… As long as a government can obtain a majority of 80 seats on 44% of the vote, any prime minister can change any governance rule they like. After Boris Johnson’s historic lawbreaking, will defenders of the status quo still argue that the first-past-the-post voting system brings stability and strong government? Or will One Nation Tories realise that the democratic values and the rule of law they claim to value would benefit from a more representative voting system with better accountability?
KATHRINE SANTOS
Executive member
Liberal Democrats for Electoral Reform
London
Viktor Orban won an election with roughly half the vote…, but, “thanks to gerrymandering”, two-thirds of the parliamentary seats… In the British election of 2019 the Tories won 44% of the vote and 56% of the seats, and in 1983 42% of the vote and 61% of the seats. Clearly Britain’s electoral system is more unfit for purpose than Hungary’s, even without gerrymandering.
MICHAEL SHIPMAN
London”
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