Richard L. Strout (pictured) and Michael Kinsley bequeathed it to me. Events of the past decade made me reconsider, and the House speaker fight is killing it dead.
I still think multi-member districts electing maybe 4-5 people each, under a proportional system (either the Proportional Approval method that the Center for Election Science recommends, or the proportional version of STAR that the Equal Vote Coalition likes) would produce better results than we’re getting in the US.
The UK doesn’t use proportionality at all, they have single member districts, and any system where the individual races are winner-take-all is going to produce toxic polarization eventually. Read Ezra Klein.
The Knesset uses a party-list proportional method, so I guess they’re just proof that any election method _can_ produce terrible outcomes.
I still think multi-member districts electing maybe 4-5 people each, under a proportional system (either the Proportional Approval method that the Center for Election Science recommends, or the proportional version of STAR that the Equal Vote Coalition likes) would produce better results than we’re getting in the US.
The UK doesn’t use proportionality at all, they have single member districts, and any system where the individual races are winner-take-all is going to produce toxic polarization eventually. Read Ezra Klein.
The Knesset uses a party-list proportional method, so I guess they’re just proof that any election method _can_ produce terrible outcomes.
I disagree. The UK removing bad PMs quickly is a sign of success, not failure.