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...Hare system of proportional representation, which allows voters to pick as many candidates as they wish and rank their preferences, has led candidates to seek any sort of name recognition in the hopes that
Thus, the CCA was born at the same time as the other two oddities of Cambridge politics, "Plan E" government and Hare Proportional Representation. Under Plan E, a professional, non-elected city manager handles the day-to-day workings of government under the supervision of the elected officials. The mayor holds a largely ceremonial position and is elected from among the city councilors. PR voting, an at-large balloting system where candidates are ranked by voters, is designed to give minority views a chance to elect their own representatives. The CCA was dedicated to electing a slate of reformist city...
City officials in Cambridge are elected according to the Hare system of proportional representation (PR). Cambridge citizens vote for as many of the 22 candidates as they want, assigning a 1 vote to their first choice candidate, 2 to their second choice, and on down the line...
...that Third World cultures, economies and politics must ripen over time, and that the most the older nations can do to help is to set a rigorous example. The setting for this ambitious exchange is a world conference on hunger being held in Bombay in 1978. By this device, Hare introduces a second spokesman on behalf of the Third World, a Senegalese diplomat (Ving Rhames) who voices the helpless rage of mendicant nations forced to accept aid on conditions that effectively rescind their hard-won independence. All three polemicists are superbly played as variations on a theme of personal dignity...
...complicated narrative interweaves events in Bombay with a subsequent movie about those events. But rather than push toward deeper understanding, Hare lampoons his argument in dopey scenes from the putative movie and shifts toward melodrama in more elegant but equally sentimental scenes for the "actual" characters. In the most implausible sequence, an American actress offers herself as the prize to the "winner" of the debate between the novelist and the journalist. Even after this conscious retreat from political complexity, Map remains lively and provocative. Yet it leaves a viewer with the sad sense that its author shrank from the dangers...