Word: pr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PR is extraordinarily complicated--one of the main arguments of the anti-PR force's is that few voters understand the system. "They've been using it for 24 years and still don't know what it's about," says Lawrence Brennan, who is leading the fight against PR...
...supporters claim, however, that PR's great asset is that it enables different minority groups to gain representation roughly equal to their strength. Thus, on the present Cambridge Council there is one Italian-American, one Negro...
Opponents of PR insist that the system exerts a permanent divisive influence on the City. Instead of a coalition of interests, the majority ought to rule, they say. What they propose to replace PR with is the traditional non-partisan system of citywide primaries and general elections. In the primary the 18 candidates receiving the highest totals would be nominated for the general election; of these, nine would win in November...
...Under PR there are no primaries. Briefly, the system works this...
...technical operation of PR strongly influences the day-to-day workings of politics in the City. Because any successful candidate needs only about ten per cent of the total vote to be elected, his campaign is likely to be relatively restricted--even though voting is city-wide. In practice, City Councillors (and aspiring candidates) concentrate their attention on narrow geographical or interest groups--minority groups, or special professions or occupations...