Eric McGhee and Boris Shor, political scientists who study primary election systems, have published a newer version of their research on whether top-two systems elect more moderate politicians. The paper is 30 pages and can be read at this link.
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Edited By Richard Winger
What percentage of the political ***scientists*** in the Stone Age USA know ANY thing about P.R. ???
— esp in CA with its totally rigged Donkey gerrymander commission.
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PR and AppV
“What percentage of the political ***scientists*** in the Stone Age USA know ANY thing.”
There, fixed that for ya.
Most self-proclaimed experts have stood against pure proportional representation since 1994 and had simultaneously promoted every fight you can imagine for perpetuating plurality elections year after year instead of enjoying the unity phenomena that’s sweeping the globe.
Our United Coalition of Candidates have been working together as the USA Parliament for more than twenty-two consecutive years and it works fine.
DW — perhaps add to [political ***scientists***] with law school profs, math profs, polisci media and esp SCOTUS.
Very advanced super-dangerous STUPIDITY/IGNORANCE among the armies of know-it-all MORONS in many polisci connected subject areas
— esp the AREA fixation for representation in legislative bodies
— regardless of the number of votes for leg. body winners and the total votes per area.
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PR and Condorcet math since 1776 outside the USA — regardless of such morons.