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Is there a way to encourage coalitions larger than a simple majority? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/narrow

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Right now there's an incentive to juuust hit a majority in order to maximize a party's own appointments, so political systems with high fragmentation have government stability problems. Would there be a way to work around this? Could a parliament maybe do some of the work of a government directly, for example?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this mostly a fptp problem?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh no. Party list systems have it bad, or at least Israel and the Netherlands do. When there's double-digit competing parties coalitions get huge, and if they're right near 50% it only takes 1 to pull the plug.

In FPTP there's usually no fragmentation to start with because only 2 parties can dominate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you saying FPTP is a fairer system?. Honest question. I don't understand your overall statement I guess.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

No, FPTP just has different issues. Like unrepresentitiveness, which as a minority voter in a safe riding I personally hate. Or the fact that if something goes wrong with your 2 parties it's really bad (cough America cough).

Some of those party list countries in practice have a snap election like every year, for reference. Otherwise it sounds great.