tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11324278.post5244988147147194432..comments2024-03-13T19:19:04.945+02:00Comments on All Your Beis: Electoral reformUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11324278.post-29725241051009030722009-02-22T12:08:00.000+02:002009-02-22T12:08:00.000+02:00Your critique of the alternatives is on target. Ho...Your critique of the alternatives is on target. However, you might be underestimating the strategic effect of your proposal. Since ten bonus seats is a huge payoff, there is a big incentive to vote for a party that has a chance to be largest. So it's very likely that many voters will abandon the smaller parties for the large ones. In that respect, this proposal is similar to (though, much better than) the one being pushed by the IDI in which the head of the top party is automatically Prime Minister. (They have an additional incentive, besides killing the small parties: Since the right is split between secular and religious, the largest leftist party has a good chance to be the largest overall party, even though the right has more overall support (for example, the current situation)).<BR/><BR/>I hope to post on this topic tomorrow.Benhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15205883568727297302noreply@blogger.com