With less than five months remaining until the 22nd general election, the election system, which is the rule of the election, has still not been reformed. The National Assembly Speaker's pledge to ...

With less than a month remaining until the registration of preliminary candidates for next year's general election (December 12), the ruling and opposition parties remain at an impasse over the method ...

On Oct. 10, Ontario voters are being asked to change our current first-past-the-post electoral system to a mixed member proportional electoral system. Our current system consists of voting for one ...

The subtitle of Maxwell L. Stearns' new book, “Parliamentary America,” is critical: “The Least Radical Means of Radically Repairing Our Broken Democracy.” Perhaps the worst single aspect of America's ...

It is strange that in America, the home to some of the top minds in the world, the political system is creaking along like a battered jalopy on its last legs. The just-concluded presidential election ...

The Harmonised Draft Constitution of Kenya adopts in entirety our present electoral system in which the winner takes it all. In the presidential as well as in the parliamentary and local government ...

The voting system in the lower houses of federal and state parliaments gives a disproportionate advantage to the major parties. There is little analysis of the role it plays in politics, nor much ...

Mixed-member proportional election systems give voters two choices - one for a party candidate in a first-past-the-post single-member constituency election and the other for a party list in a ...

P.E.I. Premier Wade MacLauchlan began backpedalling on electoral reform shortly after the plebiscite results were announced, says CBC Radio's Mainstreet political columnist Richard Raiswell, calling ...

CANADIAN politics is a four-party affair, with a fifth party, the Greens, now trying to break into the club. Yet the country clings to a British-style first-past-the-post electoral system. Inevitably, ...