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The Lib Dems (Britain's third party) are keen on proportional representation. Cui bono? The Lib Dems, of course: at the moment, they don't have much of a hope of regularly affecting government policy, but PR would make coalition government much more likely.

Although they don't argue for it on those grounds: they argue that it's fairer. They have a point. The trouble is, I fear that coalition governments aren't as good at governing and, after thinking about it, I came to the surprising discovery that I think good governance is more important to me than fairness.

Kaiserpingvin | 05-22-09, 6:45 AM Sweden uses proportional representation, and I do not think our governance is significantly impaired by it (of course, it is very hard to tell, since we only have data from Sweden-governed-PR and not from the negation). We have had some rather rough times - the minority government we had a while ago collapsed quickly and brutally, but then I do not think such problems are unique. One can take a gander at the current chaos in the British parliament, which has even raised fears that MPs may kill themselves. It is quite interesting how special interests can have a much larger impact on politics - after the Pirate Party gained a rather significant amount of votes last parliamentary election, all parties shifted their policies on the matter of intellectual property. It was, after all, not the core interest for any of them, and they noticed that some votes lay with the pirates. Thus the interests of a minority group had an actual effect, something I believe is a lot rarer in less polypartisan government forms (if one ignores lobby groups, which I fear). Anime List - Blog - Comment

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