Paul Dwerryhouse via luv-talk wrote:
On 5/12/19 9:55 am, Paul van den Bergen via luv-talk wrote:
My take on a lot of this is that Australia has one of the most representative electoral systems in the world (states not withstanding)
Australia doesn't have a very representative electoral system. Our lower house voting system results in a particularly unrepresentative parliament,
I was going to comment on this, too, but couldn't be arsed. In particular, .de and .nz use MMP and that seems to Suck Less overall? Debian uses Condorcet which is obviously the most maximally sexy (of SINGLE-winner systems), but hard to explain to the Great Unwashed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condorcet_criterion#Instant-runoff_voting
Combine this with a far stricter party discipline system than either the UK or the US have, and we get a democracy that really isn't serving its people well at all.
Can you expand on this? It sounds like you're talking about "collective responsiblity" (as opposed to conscience votes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabinet_collective_responsibility I thought Australia's version was pretty typical for the anglosphere.