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Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 4
12/09/2013

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"Tweaked" PR
Definition
Ways of “tweaking” PR
- Multiplying # of districts, decreasing DM
- Thresholds
- Allowing voters some degree of preference voting
- Closed-list systems vs. open-list systems

Generally, the more “tweaks” a country introduces, the less proportional the result
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Hypothesis
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Fallacy of composition
Definition
What is true of the parts of a whole must be true of the whole, without there being adequate justification for the claim.
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Proportional representation
Definition
Each party gets the proportional number of seats depending on the votes they get
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Development
Definition
- Complex of social, economic, and political processes
- That enables all members of a society to share in opportunities for education, employment, civic participation, and social and cultural fulfillment as human beings
HDI
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District magnitude
Definition
The number of legislative seats assigned to a district, ranging anywhere from the exclusive use of single-member districts to a system where the entire country functions as a single district.
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