[EM] What's wrong with the party list system?

[Toby Pereira]

The problem I have with party list systems is that you do not elect individuals 
but organisations, who can then put in who they like. Politicians are going to 
form groups with each other (parties) and that's fine but I don't think that it 
should be fundamentally built into the system. I'm not an expert on party list 
systems, but I presume they are intrinsically biased against independents.
 
 
>Someone from Europe on this list recently said that they did not like
>the party list system.  Why not?  Party list seems like a fair, simple
>system of electing legislators who represent people in approximately
>the same proportion that they exist in the electorate.  I have not
>found a better-sounding proportional system yet. So, what's wrong with
>the party list system?

>-- 

>Kathy Dopp
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