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As Steven notes in a post putting New York’s special House election in perspective, the authoritarian absolutists (or “movement conservatives,” as Steven calls them) ought to be pushing for proportional representation .
Also recommended for perspective on the unusual contest is Hans Noel, writing at The Monkey Cage . (Also various other posts at that blog in recent days.)
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Outside The Beltway | OTB grafted Time for a New Party?...
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06 November 2005
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Brown the Blunt (11 )
Alan : If one steps back a minute from what we ‘knowR 17; about the separation of powers, is there any substantive reason the US...
Ed : I completely agree that combining the functions of head of state and head of government is a bad idea and results in too much deferrence paid...
Alan : @Ed @538 There are examples. The President of South Africa not only faces question time in the National Assembly but takes part in debates....
Alan : @Ed Contrary to the tourist brochures, Australia is one of the most urbanised societies on the planet. Until quite recently only in...
Ed : The 538 blog has a couple of good discussions on Brown’s proposal (today) and also why the US doesn’t have some version of question...
Ed : I am curious how Australia got the second most extreme two party system among large countries, after the US, while the UK, India, and Canada...
Alan : The AMS/MMP and STV/AV/IRV things are quite interesting. There seems to be a whole lot of reinventing the wheel in electoral reform.
Tom Round : Guy Rundle, Australian journalist (no, not the Governor of Tasmania), is attacking AV in Spiked (4 February 2010): ” How to ensure...
MSS : Antony Green’s essay is highly recommended for its overview of British electoral-refor m history. I especially like this nugget: In an...
Alan : Antony Green on the Brown referendum.
Australian election timing (4 )
Alan : Chris That’s true, but his penchant for early elections meant that he only possessed triggers for relatively brief periods if he was...
Chris Curtis : Alan, John Howard had a double dissolution trigger on unfair dismissal laws, but never fired it or the actual gun!
Alan : Tom may correct me, but as far as I know, no government that ever held a double dissolution trigger has failed to fire it. That does not mean...
Alan : It will certainly be a double dissolution. The Rudd government is already in a position to wait upon Her Excellency. The government has a...
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SCION EXCHANGE
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If by my laws you walk, and my commands you keep, and observe them,
then I will give-forth your rains in their set-time,
so that the earth gives-forth its yield
and the trees of the field give-forth their fruit.
--Vayikra 26: 3-4
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