Teaching Comparative Government and Politics

Saturday, September 18, 2010

Debating voting schemes

Professor John Sides of the George Washington University points us to links relevant to the debate in the UK over how voting should take place. First there are links to arguments for and against "proportional" voting and then links to articles about whether proportional voting reduces ethnic cleavages.

Debating the Alternative Vote in the UK
Here is an argument in favor, and an argument against.

And while we’re arguing about the AV, here is a debate about whether it makes elections less divided along ethnic lines: Donald Horowitz vs. Fraenkel & Grofman.

Teaching Comparative blog entries are indexed.
Find out about the NEW Fourth Edition of What You Need to Know

Labels: , ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home