Comments on: Gaming the (electoral) system http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2010/05/01/gaming-the-electoral-system/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=gaming-the-electoral-system Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:09:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: dlw http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/2010/05/01/gaming-the-electoral-system/comment-page-1/#comment-4506 dlw Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:03:53 +0000 http://www.democracyandsociety.com/blog/?p=1974#comment-4506 My philosophy is to lower my expectations for electoral reform. If we can encourage a healthy two major party democracy, it'll make it harder for the top elites to control both parties. To this end, I advocate the use of a federal system that uses 3-seated proportional representation in more local elections and then two or three stage elections for less local elections. That's what I post about at "A New Kind of Third Party". http://anewkindofparty.blogspot.com/ dlw My philosophy is to lower my expectations for electoral reform. If we can encourage a healthy two major party democracy, it’ll make it harder for the top elites to control both parties.

To this end, I advocate the use of a federal system that uses 3-seated proportional representation in more local elections and then two or three stage elections for less local elections. That’s what I post about at “A New Kind of Third Party”.
http://anewkindofparty.blogspot.com/
dlw

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