<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>Fruits and Votes</title>
	<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com</link>
	<description>The Weblog of Matthew S. Shugart</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Sun, 09 Jun 2013 21:00:14 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	<!-- generator="WordPress/3.2" -->

	<item>
		<title>Irish Constitutional Convention: Keep STV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Well, we had a nice discussion of the possibilities, but it is now moot. Ireland&#8217;s Constitutional Convention has rejected overwhelmingly the idea of considering a change from STV. It did vote, also by a wide margin, in favor of making five the minimum district magnitude under STV.]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6972</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Trying to make up for it&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I haven&#8217;t been posting a lot lately. Just trying to catch up&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6969</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Party identity in coalition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Australian Green senator, Richard Di Natale (Victoria) has spoken of the importance of the smaller party maintaining its identity if it enters coalition. The remarks were made at the New Zealand Greens&#8217; conference in Christchurch (NZ Herald). Sen. Di Natale spoke of changes to the current Labor Party minority cabinet&#8217;s program that his party [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6966</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Labour+Greens or +NZF?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is an interesting item about a recent poll in the New Zealand Herald. The upshot of it, as I read it, is that the New Zealand Labour party may be so concerned about being tied too closely to the Greens that they&#8217;d at least like to signal a preference for forming a coalition with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6964</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>First Bundestag member of African origin?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The New York Times profiles Karamba Diaby a candidate who might become Germany&#8217;s first member of the Bundestag to have African origins. Diaby won the Social Democratic Party&#8217;s internal vote to earn the third place on the party&#8217;s list in the state of Sachsen-Anhalt. The NYT states that he will be elected if &#8220;the Social [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6961</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Israel: Competing governance bills from within the coalition</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Members from two of the coalition partners in the Israeli government have submitted bills to reform various aspects of governance. The first, from Yisrael Beiteinu, would keep the current requirement for an absolute majority (61/120) to remove a government via a vote of no-confidence, but not allow such a motion even to be debated until [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6959</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Turkish protests</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I certainly do not know what is going on in Turkey, but some people are claiming the government has been getting more oppressive recently, despite being nominally democratic. For whatever it might be worth, I did point out in 2007 that its electoral system might not meet the test of being democratic.]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6957</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Remember Victor D&#8217;Hondt!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not too late to make a difference. Sign the online petition sponsored by the Victor D&#8217;Hondt Society on the occasion of the meetings of the Belgian and Dutch political science associations in Ghent. Victor D&#8217;Hondt is a well-known pioneer of proportional representation, and his &#8220;D&#8217;Hondt-method&#8221; to distribute seats during elections is used all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6954</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Do UK elections now allow fusion candidacies?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nadine Dorries, Conservative MP, says she is considering running as a joint Conservative-Ukip candidate in the 2015 general election. She claims others might do the same, as a means to avoid a split on the right as the UK Independence Party eats away at the Tories&#8217; right flank. Dorries claimed having two logos on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6952</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Is MMP in Ireland&#8217;s future?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Constitutional Convention of Ireland is considering proposing a new electoral system for parliamentary elections. The 100-member Convention strongly favors a mixed-member proportional (MMP) system, with 69% preferring it over other options. A &#8220;proportional list system&#8221;&#8211;not clear whether open or closed was specified&#8211;wins 29% support, and a paltry 3% would like FPTP. (And, yes, those [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://fruitsandvotes.com/?p=6950</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>
