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Germany, South Korea, New Zealand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Israel have been championed as countries that implemented an effective response to covid-19. What do these success cases have in common? They share similar electoral rules.

These countries have political systems that use proportional representation electoral rules — they assign legislative seats to political parties based on the proportion of the overall vote parties win. For example, in Germany, the Free Democratic Party won 10.7 percent of the vote in 2017, which gave the party 80 seats in the Germany’s 709-seat legislature.

Countries criticized for their coronavirus response — the United States, the United Kingdom and France — instead use majoritarian electoral rules.…  Seguir leyendo »