Citizens of many nations have come to realize the only good way to address the democratic deficits of a winner-take-all electoral system is through the adoption of some form of Proportional Representation.
Canada
- Andrew Coyne: What problem is electoral reform supposed to solve? Here are a couple, to start
- Dennis Pilon: You can’t hide behind the Constitution to spare us electoral reform
- Stephen Harper & Tom Flanagan: Our benign dictatorship
- Dual-Member Mixed Proportional: A New Electoral System for Canada
- Dion: Which Voting System is Best for Canada?
- The Standing Committee on Procedure and House Affairs 43rd Report on Electoral Reform: Supplementary Opinion of Conservative Party of Canada & Bloc Québécois
- John Milloy: Electoral reform: What is the problem we are trying to solve?
- PressProgress: Canada keeps electing majority governments even though a majority of voters voted for somebody else
- PressProgress: 7 strangest election results in history produced by Canada’s broken voting system
- NDP wants Liberals to surrender majority on electoral reform committee
- PDF: UK Electoral Reform Society: PR Myths
- Does Proportional Representation give too much power to small parties?
- Ed Broadbent: The real democratic deficit: our parliamentary system
- Elections Canada: Plurality-Majority Electoral Systems: A Review
- Elections Canada: Proportional and Semi-proportional Electoral Systems: Their Potential Effects on Canadian Politics
- Under our winner-take-all electoral system, everybody loses
- Electoral reform and the corporate media
- Tyee: Who Killed BC-STV?
- Ten Canadian Commissions, Assemblies and Reports that have recommended proportional representation
- Rabble series on PR: Proportional representation is not ‘too complicated’~the fix is in
- Rabble series on PR: Activists gear up for ‘historic opportunity’ to usher in proportional representation
- Rabble series on PR: Proportional representation for Canada: A primer
- Rabble series on PR: Nation-to-nation recognition, not electoral reform, key to increasing Indigenous voter turnout
- PDF: Library of Parliament: Proportional Representation
- Elections Canada: Evolution of the Federal Electoral System
- Parliamentary Reform and the House of Commons
- An appeal to the Canadian Institute on the rectification of Parliament
by Sir Sandford Fleming (1892)
United Kingdom
- UK Electoral Reform Society blog
- Alternative Vote Referendum 2011
- There’s now strong support for changing the voting system to proportional representation, new polling find
- A Guide to Ireland’s PR-STV Voting System
- Proportional Representation in Ireland
- The Principles of Parliamentary Representation
by Charles L. Dodgson (Lewis Carroll)
United States
- Strengthening Democracy by Embracing a Multi-Party System
- Winner Take All vs. Proportional Representation
Australia
- Effective Voting
- PDF: Everybody Counts: Tasmania’s ‘s Unique Electoral System
(Hare-Clark with Robson Rotation) by The Hon Neil Robson - Why We Chose Proportional Representation
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