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Key Takeaways Proportional systems are better at promoting consensus — especially in polarized societies — and achieving public policies that better reflect what majorities of citizens want. Proportional electoral systems are better at achieving what voters want. In polarized societies, some forms of proportional systems represent improvements over winner-take-all elections when it comes to holding politicians accountable at the ballot box by giving voters more choices within and across parties. Proportional electoral systems can enhance government accountability. Proportional systems that maintain the number of parties at a moderate level can reduce the risk of political instability currently posed by the winner-take-all system in the United States. Proportional electoral systems can reduce political instability. The choice of electoral reform is not a binary one between the two-party system that winner- take-all encourages and the fragmentation seen in very permissive proportional sy

Key Takeaways Proportional systems are better at promoting consensus — especially in polarized societies — and achieving public policies that better reflect what majorities of citizens want. Proportional electoral systems are better at achieving what voters want. In polarized societies, some forms of proportional systems represent improvements over winner-take-all elections when it comes to holding politicians accountable at the ballot box by giving voters more choices within and across parties. Proportional electoral systems can enhance government accountability. Proportional systems that maintain the number of parties at a moderate level can reduce the risk of political instability currently posed by the winner-take-all system in the United States. Proportional electoral systems can reduce political instability. The choice of electoral reform is not a binary one between the two-party system that winner- take-all encourages and the fragmentation seen in very permissive proportional sy

"The [winner-take-all] system in the US is no longer able to ensure good governance and is making the country increasingly vulnerable to authoritarian threats." Why proportional representation is better - new from
@johncarey.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org: protectdemocracy.org/governance

03.05.2024 14:39 — 👍 79    🔁 31    💬 2    📌 0
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Chicagoland: Please join @profsaunders.bsky.social and me for joint book events on May 8 at UChicago at noon (feat. @carsonaust.bsky.social) and Evanston Public Library at 6pm (thanks to @danigilbert.bsky.social et al.). Tell your friends!

03.05.2024 00:59 — 👍 21    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 4

Isn't something like a class Slack channel the simple solution?

04.11.2023 17:16 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

#econsky #polisky

📣 The Scrivner Institute of Public Policy at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies is hiring a teaching-line faculty member to be an integral part of our Public Policy program 📣

jobs.du.edu/en-us/job/49...

02.11.2023 19:25 — 👍 7    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 2
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Beware of imposters.

31.10.2023 21:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Political Economy (560100)

2 days left to apply for our Job in Political Economy (assistant or associate level, CPE/ IPE/ Formal).

30.10.2023 09:16 — 👍 9    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Hi Polisky! Especially scottatyson.bsky.social who definitely doesn't run this account.

26.10.2023 20:41 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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