Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

The UK needs a new electoral system – should it copy Scandinavia?

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par Torbjörn Tännsjö, Professor of Practical Philosophy, Stockholm University

Calls for electoral reform are rising in the UK, where a majority of people are now in favour of a different system. It’s easy to see why. A voting system based on having one MP for one constituency, elected via one-person-one-vote, only works well when there are two political parties competing for a position in each constituency rather than multiple parties.

The two-party system invites an unsound party culture in which “entryism” – infiltrating a…

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