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Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by davidw on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:52AM (#10301867)
Italy and Israel are two countries that have had very proportional systems in recent time frames.

Having lived in Italy, I am not that impressed by the politics there, and think that proportional representation with party lists is part of the problem.

I think STV is pretty interesting, but producing one winner is no bad thing either. Of course, as per Arrow, nothing is perfect.

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Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by hackeraccount on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @10:58AM (#10304438)
How on earth can it be that yours is the only reference to Arrow?
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Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by davidw on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @12:40PM (#10305193)
For those who don't know what that is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theore...

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Re:Gerrymandering and a cure for it – the shortest splitline... by eli_gottlieb on Wednesday September 30, 2015 @08:59AM (#10303546)
Having lived in Israel, its politics are often poisoned by those of the United States, but are otherwise much, much healthier than those of the United States.
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