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Notes on Politics

Missionary Party: Party whose principle aim is to converts for its ideologies, not to maximize its votes so as to win election.

Broker Party: party whose main goal is to win elections. Ideologically nutrual party

Nomination:The legal procedures by which election authorities certify certain persons as qualified candidates for office and print their names on the official ballot.

Candidate selection: The mainly extralegal process by which political parties decide which persons will be designated on the ballot and in election communications as their recommended candidates.

Single-member-district system

First-Past-the-Post

Absolute Majority Systems: 50 % + 1

Multimember-Proportional System

Party-List System: Parties are the mainly units of representation

The Single-Transferable-Vote System: prioritise in individual candidtates

Apportionment: The process of assigning to local areas the number of representatives each will elect to the central legislature

Referendums: Election in which questions of public policy are voted upon directly by ordinary citizen.

1. Government-Controlled Referendums:

2. Constitutionally Required Referendums:

3. Referendums by Popular Petitions: People summit a petition demanding a referundum.

4. Popular Initiatives: The petitioners determine the wording of the referundum proposition.

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