POL 101W Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Party System, Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service, First-Past-The-Post Voting
14 Apr 2017
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Chapter 12: elections, electoral systems, and voting behavior. What are their main characteristics, advantages and drawbacks: plurality/majoritarian, pr, mmp. Only meaningful if those elected have real power. All citizens should have the right to run in elections. All political parties should have the right to nominate candidates and campaign on their behalf. An election is not democratic if only those candidates authorized by the state are allowed to run or if some parties are prevented from participating in an election campaign: universal suffrage. Democratic elections are based on the principle of one person one vote. Suffrage: the right of all adult citizens to vote regardless of such characteristics as gender, ethnicity, wealth, or education. Should also be easy for citizens to exercise their right to vote. Some areas have elections that restrict women from voting. However, in canada, felons are not allowed to vote in certain conditions.
