Representation

The Effect on Women’s Representation Since it is established that the culture of a state has an affect on the overall attitude towards women in politics, the next question remains: what effect does this have on the proportion of women getting elected? As seen in Figure 1-Attitudes and Representation, “egalitarian attitudes toward women leaders are strongly related to the proportion of women elected to the lower houses of national parliaments (r = .57; sig. = .01)” (134). The diagram essentially shows that an egalitarian culture generally leads to better representation of women in politics. Table 2-The Impact of Social, Institutional, and Cultural Factors on the Proportion of Women in Parliament further emphasizes this theory as it shows…

“In the past, it was widely held that women were less political than men, if not apolitical. It was assumed that women had lower levels of interest in politics and lower levels of participation in political activities” (Childs and Campbell 3). However, recently feminist political scientists have found that there is “evidence of a closure of the traditional gender gap in voter turnout” (Childs and Campbell 3). Despite the fact that more women are voting, lack of political representation is still…

second is Proportional Representation (PR). Given that single-member district systems and the second is proportional representation…

There are two types of popular pressure which may have brought improved representation and greater democracy. The Marxist historians argued that violence improved representation. The meritocratic or moral force argument was the idea that the unfranchised proved that they would not undermine the constitution through their interest in property initially, but World War One led to the reformation of this idea. In addition, the different party political interests may have also led to the Reform Acts…

that what you call ‘discovery’? Discoveries can be confronting and thus lead an individual to form a new perception of themselves, hence is able to guide another individual to the right path. This aspect of the ‘discovery’ is explored trough the play ‘Away’ by Michael Gow as three families go away on holidays and experience their own individual discoveries. The 17 years old protagonist Tom; who confronts and acknowledges his approaching premature death due to leukaemia and enables healing for…

the solution to the “winner takes all system” is proportional representation. Proportional representation would restore our American government strengthen our democracy by created more options for voters, fixing our voters rights issues. For Americans, state and federal primaries have two main highly funded options of Democrats and Republicans. Some Americans want other parties to challenge the establishment. In a recent survey, “60 percent of Americans would now like to see other parties emerge…

voting , restricts voters choice , votes are wasted as once a party has the most votes by a majority all the other votes are wasted, It promotes a two party politics ,poor representation of women and constituencies .Politicians tend to move away from their homelands to make it using this system. In Addition , there is the Alternative voting system also known as rank voting system. It is used to elect in a number of places like the Labour leadership elections , elections for the House of Lords ,…

representatives. It is required to simplify the overall process in order to hand over the power from millions to a limited number of representatives and that is where difficulties begin (Venice Commission 2010). In most countries that are govern under representative parliamentary democracy, it is common to see coalition governments. Even though coalition governments are form by a compromise at the beginning, there would be so many problems when coalition parties begin not to preserve initial…

one political party (Theweek.co.uk, 2016). Contrasting the positive side, no electoral system is perfect and thus proportional representation also has disadvantages. Firstly, the idea that smaller parties have a better chance at being elected may not work under a Canadian political system, as the liberal party has a secondary support from the New Democratic Party voters. This, in turn, would create a liberal domination. As well, this system allows for unfavorable parties, such as bloc Quebecois,…

where more than one party runs the government. o Proportional Representation(PR) Proportional Representation is the voting system that matches the proportion of the votes cast with the proportion of seats that the party receives. PR is also known as the Party List System. When voting, voters must mark a cross next to the Political party, not the individual candidate, which represents their views. The votes are counted and then shared proportionally so for example if one party gets fifty percent…