How democratic is the UK’s proportional electoral system: the single transferable vote (STV)?

Dunleavy, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0002-2650-6398 (2018) How democratic is the UK’s proportional electoral system: the single transferable vote (STV)? Democratic Audit Blog (20 Jul 2018). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

Patrick Dunleavy examines the proportional (PR) electoral system now used for smaller UK elections: the Northern Ireland Assembly, and Scottish and Northern Irish local councils. How has STV fared in converting votes into seats and fostering political legitimacy, under British political conditions? An Annex also discusses the list PR system used to elect European Parliament MEPs from 1999 to 2014, but now discontinued as a result of Brexit.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://www.democraticaudit.com/
Additional Information:	© 2018 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Government
Subjects:	J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited:	24 May 2021 14:06
Last Modified:	14 Sep 2024 02:53
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/109698

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