[fvc-wat-disc] Questions

[Anita Nickerson]

Thanks Matt. I will contact Kate. You know one of my things is to tie the
need for PR into issues people who don't know much about electoral reform
care about. Any claims we make for PR other than you get what you voted for
have to be well researched. It would make an interesting event topic.

Anita

On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:27 PM, Matt Foster <world at golden.net> wrote:

>  video - http://www.ted.com/talks/richard_wilkinson.html
>  info on book the spirit level  -
> http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resource/the-spirit-level
> author
> kate.pickett at york.ac.uk
> phone 01904 32(1377)
> notes from Wikipedia etc.
> *Recent News*: Shortlisted with her co-author, Wilkinson RG, for
> "Research Project of the Year" in the Times Higher Education Awards 2009
> for her research and publication: The Spirit Level: Why More Equal
> Societies Almost Always Do Better.
> He is best known for his book with Kate Pickett The Spirit Level, first
> published in 2009, which claims that societies with more equal distribution
> of incomes have better health, fewer social problems such as violence, drug
> abuse, teenage births, mental illness, obesity, and others, and are more
> cohesive than ones in which the gap between the rich and poor is greater.
>
> Hi Anita,
> Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson wrote a great book on why countries
> with greater equality do better. I wrote to Wilkinson saying that he needed
> a graph that shows equality/inequality as it relates to the electoral
> system.
> He sent me a paper by someone in Brazil who had done such a comparison but
> I cant find it. If you get the book from the library you can pretty much do
> it yourself as it is so obvious except for Portugal which is the odd ball.
> Why don't you try writing or phoning Ms Pickett? I cannot find the address
> for Wilkinson anywhere.
> If you want to contact David Orchard try here <davidorchard at sasktel.net><davidorchard at sasktel.net>or David Orchard
> <ccaftnat at sasktel.net> <ccaftnat at sasktel.net>
> or call him at (306) 997-4981 (Bordon Saskatchewan)
> Ed Broadbent is also very knowledgeable on this topic as I recall him
> speaking on it.
> Cheers
> Matt Foster - stop stop stop "Society Thrives On Participation" see -
> http://stopstopstop.org
>
>  On 27/10/2012 3:33 PM, Anita wrote:
>
> I have two questions I'm wondering if anyone can answer.
>
> Is there a researched connection between income inequality and voting
> systems?  The Lipjhart study made a weak connection suggesting less
> inequality in PR countries, but that was before much of Europe collapsed in
> the recession. If their level of income inequality is worse now, that would
> defeat the case.
>
> Is there a researched connection between trade deals and voting systems? I
> read a very alarming book by David Orchard called the Fight for Canada
> about the free trade agreement. I'm always hearing how Canada gives away
> control of this and that (pretty much sells the country to whomever)
> whereas other countries take steps to protect their industries and
> resources when it benefits their country to do so. I wonder if there is any
> connection between these types of decisions and voting systems.
>
> Anita
>
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