Word: pr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...PR sounds like a complicated system, andit...
...Bigelow says the system has a logicalbeauty, which accounts for its popularity inacademic circles. Professors of political science,she says, tend to love PR. Voters often say theyhate...
However complicated the system may sound,experts say PR works--perhaps too well for its owngood. The basic problem with PR, they say, is thatit does exactly what it was supposed to do--electcandidates with minority support...
...city repealed PR in 1947--shortly afterBenjamin Davis, Jr. Was elected to the CityCouncil on the Communist party ticket. AnotherCommunist and two members of the socialistAmerican Labor Party had previously served on theNew York council...
Cincinnati repealed PR in 1957 shortly afterthe election of Theodore Barry--a Black man--toits city council, says Joseph F. Zimmerman, anexpert on PR at the State University of New Yorkat Albany. And he says the timing of the twoevents is probably not a coincidence...