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armygirl

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What is plurality rule? How does plurality rule discriminate against minorities?
 
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In a non-democratic regime, the citizens have the authority to hold the rulers accountable.
 
  Indicate whether this statement is true or false.



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Answer to Question 1

Under plurality rule, the candidate who receives the largest share of the votes in the electoral district wins the seat, even if that share is less than a majority of 50 percent +1 of the votes. Because only one seat is at stake in each electoral district in such elections, plurality rule tends to generate distortions between the percentage of votes received and the percentage of seats received: the best-performing party at a given election tends to do better than its vote percentage might suggest, while smaller parties are penalized and do worse than their vote percentage might suggest. Given this, plurality rule tends to manufacture majority control of the legislature, even if the best-performing party does not win an actual majority of all the votes. In general, the plurality system tends to discriminate against smaller parties.

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armygirl

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Reply 2 on: Jul 8, 2018
Thanks for the timely response, appreciate it


miss.ashley

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YES! Correct, THANKS for helping me on my review

 

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