Towards a New Electoral System
Author(s) -
Anastasios Ioannidis,
Markella Koutsouradi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of power politics and governance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2372-4919
pISSN - 2372-4927
DOI - 10.15640/jppg.v6n2a1
Subject(s) - electoral system , voting , cornerstone , pluralism (philosophy) , politics , preference , political science , point (geometry) , proportional representation , electoral politics , political system , law and economics , economics , microeconomics , democracy , law , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy , geometry , art , visual arts
Under the present electoral system every citizen is entitled to voting for only one political party. However, pluralism is a cornerstone notion for democracies and consequently, when voters are entitled to voting for more than one political party, their option tends to extend on the grounds that they are provided with the capability of expressing their opinion holistically and are not confined to a single option. Such a method could be a point system, where each voter possesses a sum of points which are distributed in accordance with the voter’s preferences. Consequently, this electoral system could be named “Preference -PointBased Electoral System” (henceforth PPBES) and it should be noted that current developed would facilitate the existence of the aforementioned electoral system. The present paper aims at presenting a new electoral system, where voters are entitled to multiple options voting for.
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