Aren't "weak, short-lived governments" something to aspire to? Don't such governments result in less opportunity to take rights away from people and impose additional burdens?
In STV: A minimum number of votes (a quota) is worked out for a candidate to win a seat.
All these STV elections have produced Stable Govts, and Independents elected are more numerous, providing Extra Diversity.
2) The Deutsch elections in the early 1930's, had no minimum number of votes needed, so they finished up with a very large number of Parties (of one Member each!!) in Parliament and eventually led to Hitler being Nominated as Chancellor.
3) What did those Italians have before 1993? And did "electoral excitement" adopt a different type of person from those STV elected above?
Aren't "weak, short-lived governments" something to aspire to? Don't such governments result in less opportunity to take rights away from people and impose additional burdens?
Let's Investigate! STV is the Single Transferable Vote which is a Proportional Representation system.
1) Eire has always had STV and most of their Govts are long ones - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_the_Republic_of_Ireland
Scotland and Northern Ireland use STV too - see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Scotland
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_government_in_Northern_Ireland
In STV: A minimum number of votes (a quota) is worked out for a candidate to win a seat.
All these STV elections have produced Stable Govts, and Independents elected are more numerous, providing Extra Diversity.
2) The Deutsch elections in the early 1930's, had no minimum number of votes needed, so they finished up with a very large number of Parties (of one Member each!!) in Parliament and eventually led to Hitler being Nominated as Chancellor.
3) What did those Italians have before 1993? And did "electoral excitement" adopt a different type of person from those STV elected above?
JimQ