Reviews for Superlccs 2004 Schedule Kz Microfiche Law Of Nations

The average rating for Superlccs 2004 Schedule Kz Microfiche Law Of Nations based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-22 00:00:00 Stephen Archibald Voting Counts surveys several voting systems, and concludes that the Scottish version of the Mixed Member Proportional system, with some tweaking, is the system the Canada should adopt. It thus provides a crash course in Proportional Representation, though not the detailed, thorough explanation of different PR types that I would have liked. Only the Scottish system, the one that the LCC wants Canada to adopt, is thoroughly explained, right down to the formula for assigning compensation seats. One of my favourite parts of the book is Figure 9 of Chapter 4, a reimagining of the 2000 federal election as it would have taken place with MMP, including a pie chart and a table that demonstrates just how the compensation seats would have been assigned (pp. 96-97). I would have loved to see something similar for every PR system mentioned in the book. The authors spend a fair amount of time on the German MMP system, which gives results that are more proportional than the Scottish MMP system. They ultimately reject it as an option for Canada because of the likelihood of too many "overhang" seats being assigned to a region--"This would have occurred in Ontario in every election since 1993," they claim (p. 93)--but they don't provide enough detail to allow the reader to fully understand either why this would happen, or what "overhang" seats are, exactly. While all Scottish MMP formulae are provided, with examples, the German formulae are omitted. And yet this is precisely the information that readers would require to evaluate all the systems for themselves and decide whether they agreed with the LCC's conclusions. The authors appear more interested in giving readers just enough data to appreciate the advantages of the system they themselves prefer. "Just trust us on this," is the message I took from this approach, which I found paternalistic and patronizing. One could perhaps argue that if the authors had been that thorough, the report would have wound up being much larger. I think the solution to that possibility lies in the report's second major flaw: too much repetition. The start of the book was the hardest to get through because Chapter 1 keeps repeating, in so many more words, what was stated in the introduction. If the first part of the book was well-edited, there would be much more room for details on other types of PR, and if more room still was needed, they could also edit out all the bits on alternate Majoritarian systems, because they're not proportional at all, so what are they good for and why should anyone care? In summary, if you're interested in Proportional Representation for Canada and you want a recommendation backed by much study and consideration of implications that you probably would never have thought of on your own, this report is a good place to start. It's just that it's not a good place to finish, not if you want to obtain a good understanding of the differing systems so that you can have your own informed opinion. For that, you'll need to read another book, perhaps Electoral Systems: a Comparative Introduction by David M. Farrell. That's what I plan to read next.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-12-17 00:00:00 John Mcay Relatively readable, given the complexity of the material.