Key Takeaways Proportional systems are better at promoting consensus — especially in polarized societies — and achieving public policies that better reflect what majorities of citizens want. Proportional electoral systems are better at achieving what voters want. In polarized societies, some forms of proportional systems represent improvements over winner-take-all elections when it comes to holding politicians accountable at the ballot box by giving voters more choices within and across parties. Proportional electoral systems can enhance government accountability. Proportional systems that maintain the number of parties at a moderate level can reduce the risk of political instability currently posed by the winner-take-all system in the United States. Proportional electoral systems can reduce political instability. The choice of electoral reform is not a binary one between the two-party system that winner- take-all encourages and the fragmentation seen in very permissive proportional sy
"The [winner-take-all] system in the US is no longer able to ensure good governance and is making the country increasingly vulnerable to authoritarian threats." Why proportional representation is better - new from
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