Proportional representation rewards policies that can survive change because they are backed by a real majority.
Emphatically, no! In Germany we do have multiple parties that need to form a coalition in order to gain the necessary government majority. This doesn’t make the problem go away. We still bounce between back and forth between left-leaning and right-leaning governments, with one subsidizing green energy and the next cutting all funding; one inviting migratory workers and the other closing all borders; one regulating companies to protect individuals and the other unleashing the free market.
Long-term stability is an issue that needs addressing, but proportional representation isn’t the solution.
Majority governments cancel each other projects all the time wasting millions.
Long-term stability is an issue that needs addressing, but proportional representation isn’t the solution.
Germany does better in healthcare and climate. PR has slightly less elections than FPTP.
Funny that you mention healthcare. In the last 20 years we’ve gone from free healthcare to having to pay 10€ per doctor’s visit (unsure of the details, I was young) to free healthcare again. The right-leaning government is right now discussing reintroducing that fee again.
That’s because that’s what the people voted for. If people vote for right-wing policy that’s what they will get.
Democracies work better when 95% of the vote is represented instead of just 39%, this ensures accountability from politicians.
PR has slightly less elections than FPTP.
If you mean “fewer elections”, then that has nothing to do with the electoral system. The term length is independent of that. If you mean something else, I can’t follow. Could you rephrase what you mean?
Nope, the research shows that electoral systems changes the motivations, there’s always calls for early elections from one of the 2 big parties when they have a minority government when they’re doing well in the polls since then they do not have to compromise through supply and confidence agreements, think of Stephen Harper.
