alt Hacker Newsre:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist
re:2, proportional representation systems oftentimes have more extremist parties elected, they’re just severely kneecapped by not having enough votes to do anything extremist
Except that they can hold your coalition government hostage by making you concede on their pet issue or leave the coalition and force an election.