Election Reform vs Campaign Finance Reform!
The issue of election reform vs CFR has come back up in recent comments made in my last post on strategic state-level election reform as the way to subvert populism and restore trust in the two major parties. Why strategic election reform trumps election reform is an issue I delved into earlier.
Another issue is whether my editorial prescription for election reform is simply a complicated way to get Proportional Representation (PR)? My short answer is yes and no. Yes, I want PR used in part of our political system. No, I do not want it used as extensively as it is used elsewhere and, in my editorial series, I make my case for strategic election reform, as such, on both pragmatic and idealistic grounds. I want us to use both winner-take-all and winner-doesn't-take-all elections. Furthermore, I wd like to see both open list and closed list version of PR used in different types of elections. There is no one right election rule and when that is understood, it'll be a lot easier to make election reforms.
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