If Duverger's law states that single member district electoral systems will produce two party systems; if they use first past post voting, then what happens if we produced dual member district electoral systems modeled on how Rome elected Consuls?
Why resist verification?
I bring this up because of the American two party structure. We tend to say to vote for a third party because we don't like other candidates; however that doesn't work because third party candidates distribute evenly across the electorate while main party candidates are represented via district.
I want to interogate how this dynamic plays out if we construct districts with two seats per district. I'm curious how a Consulship style election would play out in the American party system. Before you say simply "then there would be four parties", yes but I'm more interested in the micro consequences than the macro; what kind of representation distribution dynamics this would create.
What then would happen if we applied this at scale considering current politics when interpreted through this conceptual framework?
Why resist verification?
I bring this up because of the American two party structure. We tend to say to vote for a third party because we don't like other candidates; however that doesn't work because third party candidates distribute evenly across the electorate while main party candidates are represented via district.
I want to interogate how this dynamic plays out if we construct districts with two seats per district. I'm curious how a Consulship style election would play out in the American party system. Before you say simply "then there would be four parties", yes but I'm more interested in the micro consequences than the macro; what kind of representation distribution dynamics this would create.
What then would happen if we applied this at scale considering current politics when interpreted through this conceptual framework?
If Duverger's law states that single member district electoral systems will produce two party systems; if they use first past post voting, then what happens if we produced dual member district electoral systems modeled on how Rome elected Consuls?
Why resist verification?
I bring this up because of the American two party structure. We tend to say to vote for a third party because we don't like other candidates; however that doesn't work because third party candidates distribute evenly across the electorate while main party candidates are represented via district.
I want to interogate how this dynamic plays out if we construct districts with two seats per district. I'm curious how a Consulship style election would play out in the American party system. Before you say simply "then there would be four parties", yes but I'm more interested in the micro consequences than the macro; what kind of representation distribution dynamics this would create.
What then would happen if we applied this at scale considering current politics when interpreted through this conceptual framework?
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