Word: pr
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According to local political pundit Robert Winters, Cambridge is the only city in the entire country that still uses the so-called “proportional representation” (PR) voting system, which is specifically designed to allow smaller political parties and interest groups to gain a voice in local government...
...system is one of the “purest” forms of democracy, he adds. The PR system has historically attracted dark horse candidates and long shots—from hard-core Libertarians to members of the Green Party—who want to gain a toehold on the mainstream, as well as long-time denizens of the neighborhood-based politics in the People’s Republic of Cambridge...
...PR form of democracy, every kind of candidate—and every kind of platform—get their...
...worked on] ways to connect artists to underserved communities,” he says. “I had a big immersion in arts administration…I was fundraising and doing PR and providing grants for artists. I wanted to get in even further...
...despite its closeness to Washington, declined at a crucial moment to advise parliament on how it should vote on Iraq - for reasons that have more to do with the Turkish military being dissatisfied by the terms it was offered on Iraqi Kurdistan than with some failure of State Department PR to persuade 95 percent of Turks they were wrong...