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That could be an interesting way to solve the "indecisive parliament" or
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> "</font>frequent government change" problem where these exist. In order to
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> </font>recall the executive, they have to vote for a new coalition at the same
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They have kinda that rule in Germany. The only way to remove their<br>
Chancellor is to nominate a replacement.<br>
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There is a proposed alternative to MMP called Fair majority voting that<br>
solves some of its problems. It has the same single winner + national party<br>
proportional vote system. It has some problems of its own though.<br>
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http://www.mathaware.org/mam/08/EliminateGerrymandering.pdf<br>
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Basically, each voter votes for a party and candidate. In each<br>
district, plurality is used to work out the winner (I think approval <br>
could also work).<br>
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The fair number of seats for each party is worked out based on the party<br>
vote and a set of multiplers are determined so that each party gets the <br>
right number of seats.<br>
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These multipliers are multiplied by the vote total of each candidate in the party.<br>
A party which got to few seats would be given a higher multipler.<br>
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In effect, it flips the results where the margin of victory was small in order<br>
to bring all parties to their proportional totals.<br>
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I am not sure what the best way to do the task that matrix voting tries to accomplish.<br>
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Normally positions on the executive are not equal in value.<br>
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There are free riding issues with selection of major posts. For example, if you rank <br>
your party leader first choice as PM, you use up some of your vote for the other<br>
positions. The solution could be to kick out anyone in the party who doesn't rank<br>
their own leader first choice, so all equally share the cost.<br>
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In Northern Ireland, they use the d'Hondt system for allocating seats on the executive.<br>
This gives the larger parties an advantage as they get to pick first. Also, the largest<br>
2 parties get 1 seat each for free.<br>
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Another option would be a fair division protocol. If you had 2 equally sized parties,<br>
one party leader could split the executive positions into 2 and then the other party<br>
leader could pick one group. This should mean that both groups have roughly equal <br>
value.<br>
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Alternatively, one of the leaders could give each position a value and the other <br>
party leader can pick any group of positions such that the total adds up to less than half.<br>
If the first leader undervalues a position, the 2nd leader gets a powerful position for a <br>
low cost. Likewise, if he overvalues a position, the 2nd leader will just not take it, giving<br>
him a larger share of the other positions.<br>
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I am not such if this can be expanded to multiple parties of differing sizes.<br>
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Also, there is the issue that there would be no coherent national policy on anything. You<br>
could have one minister taking actions which cancel out the actions of another minister.<br>
(and both spending money doing it). Ofc, this creates an incentive for them to work together<br>
and find a compromise.<br>
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Also, budgets could be an issue. One option would be to share tax income out proportionally.<br>
Each member of the legislature could decide what ministries their share is allocated to.<br>
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Interesting site<br>
"what if anyone could modify the laws"<br>
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www.wikocracy.com</font></font></div>
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