Europe: Rethink Parliamentary Democracy

Europe: Rethink Parliamentary Democracy

To remove the basic flaws of parliamentary democracy, we probably need fewer reforms than one might think, but we must be willing to question basic paradigms that have long stood as the cornerstones of our political system. The election threshold clause – which restricts parliamentary representation in European countries with party-list proportional representation systems to parties that win more then a certain percentage of the popular vote in an election – is one such paradigm.

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