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>Surely it doesn't matter whether you are electing a single chamber
>legislature or two-chamber legislature? Should the over-riding
>requirement not be for both chambers, e.g. House and Senate, to be
>properly representative of those who have voted in the two elections?
There are different forms of representation. Even in a single seat district
system, the
representatives do represent the voters in their district. In each district
the candidate
elected will be approx the median candidate.
OTOH, PR will give each faction above a certain minimum threshold
representation in the
legislature (due to a finite number of seats).
The effect of a voter in the first case is to shift the median in their
direction. and
in the PR case, the voter is directly selecting a representative.
If the resulting legislature uses majority rule as its basis for operation,
then the
decisions of the legislature will be centerist in any case.
Having each district elect a centerist and then having a legislature results
in there being
2 focusings towards the centre of the resulting policy.
Centerist isn't a specific policy, it means the median policy of the
electorate.
I am not entirely convinced that that is fair for something like spending tax
money as 51% of the
legislature should not be allowed to spend 100% of the money, but that is a
separate issue.
Raphfrk
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Interesting site
"what if anyone could modify the laws"
www.wikocracy.com
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