Word: democraticizing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly, minorities and third-party candidates find it exceedingly difficult to gain representation in legislative bodies, because the donkeys or the elephants are able to marshal between 45 and 55 percent of the vote. Minority parties are often forced to abandon the fundamental principles of their constituencies merely to form...
The great preponderance of democratic nations in the world have rejected this distorted form of representation in favor of proportional representation. All but two European nations use this system, as do South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and a number of other emerging democracies. Within these systems, every group is represented...
Lastly, proportional representation diminishes the force of big money in elections. In American politics today, pressure groups have arisen to positions of dominant importance that allow them inordinate influence and push our democratic institutions far from our ideals. Proportional representation, however, would enable candidates to be elected with a truly...
As they prepare for a series of debates that will test the Democratic party?s stomach for liberalism, Al Gore and Bill Bradley are carving out their platforms. A week after Bradley one-upped Gore's plan to insure poor children by proposing $65 billion to provide health insurance to...
McCain and Feingold, who vowed to bring the bill back into the well of the Senate despite Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's pronouncement that it was dead for the year, hadn't expected to win this round. But the vote set the stage for Senator McCain to make the...