Thursday, 24 November 2011

The word ‘proportional’ in the term proportional representation is redundant

Only proportional democracies are representative (all representative democracies are proportional) so the word ‘proportional’ in the term proportional representation is redundant... To use the term proportional representation implies that the existing system is also representative when (if it is not proportional) it is not.

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