[fvc-wat-disc] Essays on Voting Systems

[Bob Jonkman]

Hi all:  At last week's event someone asked me what those different voting system are all about. Paul Nijjar, an active member of Fair Vote Waterloo in 2007 did considerable research into the system known as "Mixed Member Proportional", which he published the summer before the 2007 provincial referendum on electoral reform. MMP is the system proposed by the Ontario Citizens' Coalition to replace the existing First Past The Post system. Of course, the 2007 referendum outcome was not in favour of change.

In one article Paul lists a glossary of voting system types, which might be a good place to start if you just need a quick overview of the different systems ( http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/26695.html ). The other articles give in-depth information into the Mixed Member Proportional system.

--Bob.


MMP 102: Coalitions vs. Minority Governments
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/21516.html

MMP 102: Three Party Systems and Bob Rae's Government
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/21860.html

MMP 102: MMP vs. Parallel Systems
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/22127.html

MMP 102: Effects of the list seat ratio
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/22521.html

MMP 102: Power Diffusion
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/22619.html

MMP 102: No Confidence Votes and MMP
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/23002.html

MMP 102: Effects of the 3% Threshold
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/23271.html

MMP 102: False Dichotomies
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/23307.html

MMP 102: Party Life Cycles
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/24316.html

MMP 102: Why Closed Lists?
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/24378.html

MMP 102: A Tired Rehashing of Identity Politics
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/24675.html

MMP 102: Party Hackery in Three Paragraphs
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/25303.html

MMP 102: What do List Members Do?
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/25597.html

MMP 102: Contradictory Arguments
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/26614.html

MMP 102: Glossary (aka Lazy Entry)
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/26695.html

MMP 102: Are people happier under MMP?
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/28087.html

MMP 102: Things that will annoy you
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/28648.html

MMP 102: Why vote for MMP?
http://pnijjar.livejournal.com/28827.html