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COMPARISON OF MAJORITARIAN AND PORPORTIONAL ELECTORAL SYSTEMS

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  Electoral systems are crucial to all representative democracies around the world. Election systems are defined as the mechanisms that the preferences of citizens are translated into seats in order to select their representatives to represent their interests. As Dickerson and Flanagan say "election could be considered a mechanism for articulating demands" (Mark, O, Dickerson, Thomas, Flanagan, 1994). Meanwhile, election systems are significant interests to anyone concerned with the operation of democratic systems of government. An electoral system performs two basic and important tasks; firstly, an election system gives authorization to those chosen representatives to represent their electors and secondly, it holds chosen representatives to grantee their actions while they are on duty. The election systems, which are in use in representative democracies, are basically divided into two categories: Majoritarian systems (First-Past-The-Post or Single Member Plurality) and proportional systems (PR). In any comparison between majoritarian and proportional electoral systems, it is important that while, we look at those two election systems in terms their distinctions and how they work differently from each other, we should also carefully examine the advantages and disadvantages of both electoral systems for electors. While first part will explore the differences and attributes of majoritarian and proportional election systems, the second part will briefly show the advantages and disadvantages of both electoral systems.
  In majoritarian electoral systems, candidates, who have attracted the most votes in a given election district, will be declared as winners. Majoritarion systems different according to the number of representatives elected...