Proportional representation rewards policies that can survive change because they are backed by a real majority.

  • bleistift2@sopuli.xyz
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    26 days ago

    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?

    • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPM
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      26 days ago

      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.