Proportional Representation and the Constituency Role in Britain
Thomas Lundberg
Thomas Lundberg critically examines the claim that party list-elected members of Britain's devolved assemblies are somehow 'second-class' representatives. The Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly are elected by the controversial mixed-member proportional (MMP) system. Empirical evidence compares British representatives to their MMP-elected counterparts in Germany and in New Zealand. Although list-elected representatives in Britain do appear to have a different constituency role, these representatives add an important element of pluralism to Britain's majoritarian politics.
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Year:
2007
Edition:
First Edition
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
Language:
english
Pages:
216
ISBN 10:
0230801366
ISBN 13:
9780230801363
File:
PDF, 578 KB
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english, 2007