POL 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Civil Disobedience, The Foundations, Plurality Voting System
18 Apr 2015
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Parliamentary government leaders (prime ministers) are not directly elected as leaders, but as members of parliament within their constituencies. They can be removed through votes of no confidence. Some of the systems date back to iceland and marx. Presidents are directly elected for a fixed-year term and can be removed through impeachment. Mixed systems have a president as a head-of-state and prime minister as head of government. ie. if the governor general was elected and had more power. One-party (dominant) systems are not techinically democratic as the incumbent has a ton of power. Two-party systems don"t really exist; it just occurs when only two parties have held government. Duverger"s law is a principle that asserts that plurality rule elections structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system. Multiparty systems are most common. (ie. canada, us etc. ) Single member plurality: first past the post. Multiparty districts: parties campaign against each other.
