[OC] What if the UK used the German electoral system?Submitted by Yodoliyee t3_10eqo4v in dataisbeautiful
ferrel_hadley t1_j4uif4e wrote
Reply to comment by 11160704 in [OC] What if the UK used the German electoral system? by Yodoliyee
If you are a CDU or SDP voter in Germany (for example) you can only guess at how much manifesto you get implemented and what gets negotiated away in coalition. Some countries (hello Belgium), forming a government is a major issue.
It think the political culture of the voting public is far more important than the voting system. I think the increasing intransigence and unrealistic nonsense is more to do with where modern politics is in the US and UK than the voting system.
11160704 t1_j4uinuz wrote
Well yes you can only guess how much gets implemented. But who says that exactly one manifesto of a random party is the optimal thing to implement?
In the end there is no objective right or wrong voting system.
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