POLS 110 Lecture Notes - Proportional Representation, Minority Government, Instant-Runoff Voting
14 Apr 2013
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Categorical: either/or choice, pick one, easy to understand, simple to vote/intuitive. Ordinal: ranking choice, greater choice, more complex voting. Mixed ballots: ballots sometimes use come combination of categorical and/or ordinal, given more choice, more complex. Voter representation/ representation by population: one person one vote one ballot. Disproportional when vote number doesn"t match seat number. The more seats there are in a district: the more proportional the results will be, the more smaller parties will get representation. Proportionality is the match between the vote share and the seat share. You can win with much less then 50 percent of the vote. Assumes a correlation between the interests of people and where they live. Vote share is equal to the seat share. You don"t get to choose the candidate; party chooses. You never get majority; government has to find other way to get majority. Minority government (rely on support from other parties)
