Open AccessAlternatywne ordynacje wyborcze. Przykład Australii i Irlandii
Author(s) -
Michał Urbańczyk
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
opolskie studia administracyjno-prawne
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2658-1922
pISSN - 1731-8297
DOI - 10.25167/osap.1483
Subject(s) - democracy , voting , political science , state (computer science) , sovereignty , majority rule , corporate governance , electoral system , law and economics , direct democracy , public administration , law , sociology , economics , computer science , politics , management , algorithm
The essence of democracy is the rule of the sovereign, that is the nation, today understood as all of the state’s citizens. At present, the most common type of governance is representative democracy, exercised by representatives elected from the citizens themselves. Therefore, for the proper functioning of liberal democracy it is difficult to find a more important issue than the procedure for the election of those who govern us. The article presents two alternative electoral systems: an alternative voting system (AV) and the system of Single Transferable Vote (STV).