International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees

Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by belorn on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @07:34AM (#14254795)

Most Parliamentary representation I know do still have seats allocation based on districts/political areas, and thus the biggest issue people have with electoral system would still be there. Even the EU with the EU parliament have degressive proportionality system where the larger the state the more citizens are represented per seat.

In the end, the idea that low population area have more impact-per-voter comes from the need to keep people united and making sure that high population areas don't completely out vote the needs of the other areas. The obvious alternative is independence, so instead of one united states you would have several smaller countries based on common needs.

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Re:International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees by NickNameNick on Wednesday May 03, 2017 @08:18AM (#14255028)

I think 'proportional representation' might have been what they meant.

I like NZ's MMP (Mixed Member Proportional) system, but there are others that work too. Anything that results in fewer, bigger districts electing multiple representatives should break the power of gerrymandering. And Proportional representation makes 3rd parties viable, which gives you more than a single forced political axis, and just might lift the level political discourse above the current 'My team, right or wrong'

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