Should We Change How We Vote?: Evaluating Canada's Electoral System

by Andrew Potter

Book Overview

During the 2015 federal election, the Liberal Party pledged that, if elected, they would end the "first past the post" electoral system, where whichever candidate receives the most votes wins a riding even if they have not received a majority of all votes cast. In early 2017, the Liberals reneged on their campaign promise, declaring that there was a lack of public consensus about how to reform the system. Despite the broken promise - and because of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773548823
• ISBN13: 9780773548824
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"