Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Additional member system (AMS)
- Key
- Against
- For
- Unrepresentative party activists deciding who goes on the list
- Complex method of allocating seats
with a longer waiting time for results
could lead to voting confusion
- Proportional rep gives areas more
than one representative (may lead
to constituent confusion over
constituency MP and regional MP)
thus weakening the MP-Constituent
link
- Coalition governments may be less stable than a majority govt. -
if the government disagrees/remains divided it could fall or
suffer from government deadlock.
- Can lead to smaller parties holding the
balance of power between two larger parties
- Extremists have a better chance of
gaining seats than under FPTP
- Accountability may be lost in a coalition where the smaller party
is dictating however it is the larger party taking the
responsibility.
- At least one effective vote meaning less wasted votes
- Extends voter choice
- Number of votes a party manages to gain is
reflected in the amount of seats they are
allocated.
- Eliminates safe seats and could thus reduce voter apathy
- Avoids phenomenon of marginal seats deciding the election result.
- Smaller parties can gain better representation
- Coalitions are more likely and two parties
may be more representative than one.
- Used in Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and greater London assembly
- Voters select the candidate they would like to represent their constituency (FPTP) and PR where voters elect candidates from several parties to
represent them at a regional level
- Hybrid system