Word: sayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...People think about quotas or the European listsystem and they say, 'Wait a minute. When I wentto school, we read that that's what allowed Hitlerto come to power...
Many British citizens now say that the UKshould follow its continental counterparts andadopt...
...usually exaggerated to say it's acomplicated system," says Liphart. "If the averageAmerican can understand all these baseballstatistics and stuff, then the average Americancan under stand...