POL 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Tsebelis, Presidential System, Electoral District
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Hard for small parties to win seats. Hard for small/new/narrowly focused parties to win seats. Voters switch to second best choice (their favorite major party) Candidates (skilled, experiences, charismatic) join parties with potential to win substantial seats in legislature. Pm is the leader of strongest party. Size of a party = seat share. Hard for small parties to win in second round. Increases number of political parties that can gain seats in parliament. Parties are allocated seats based on the number/proportion of votes they win. Poland: 41 multi-member districts, ranging in size from 7 to 17, average is about 10 seats per district. Netherlands: 1 multi-member district, with a size of 150 members. Netherlands: hare quote method with largest number. An organization whose sole purpose is to participate in government. Strength and organization of parties: government system. How many parties in the party system . Party system has strength and ideological distribution and size and number of parties.
