To my knowledge, it was MMP as it is now... but don't quote me! I'll follow this up after I've searched the web. One book you may or may not get your hands on is one from just before Hitler became Chancellor, called "Proportional Representation"- it's a seminal work on the subject of PR and was commissioned by the US Proportional Representation Society I do know that Hitler's rise is often blamed on PR. That's not very accurate. At most times, the Nazis where over-represented because of the geographical distribution of their vote, which is the fault of FPP and single-member seats rather than PR. Also, all the other Right-wing parties of the time were particularly feral (including those that led to the modern Christian Democratic parties) and an "unholy alliance" of sorts was formed to punish the Left, which span out of control as the Nazis got more and more concessions from the other parties using the threat of violence. Under MMP, a certain number of the seats in a house are selected by single- or small-number-member seats. There is then an "At Large" process, where another lot of members are elected at large to make up (or approximate in some way) the proportions of the at-large vote that each party got. On Sun, 1 Aug 1999, mordles wrote: > Was it some form of proportional representation, first past the post? > Were the constituencies single member or multiple member? > > There is a massive amount of literature about this turbulent period, > but my search for definitive answers has been fruitless. > > jdm > >
