Political philosophy

Political philosophy

Political philosophy is the study of topics such as liberty, justice, rights, laws, and the enforcement of legal code.

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Parallel voting

Political systems; Political philosophy

Parallel voting describes a mixed voting system where voters in effect participate in two separate elections for a single chamber using different systems, and where the results in one election have ...

Plurality-at-large voting

Political systems; Political philosophy

Plurality-at-large voting (commonly referred to as block voting or the bloc vote) is a voting system for electing several representatives from a single multimember electoral district using a series ...

Open list

Political systems; Political philosophy

Open list describes any variant of party-list proportional representation where voters have at least some influence on the order in which a party's candidates are elected.

Closed list

Political systems; Political philosophy

Closed list describes the variant of party-list proportional representation where voters can (effectively) only vote for political parties as a whole and thus have no influence on the party-supplied ...

Semi-proportional representation

Political systems; Political philosophy

A Semi-proportional voting system is one that is set up to allow for fairer representation of those parties that have difficulty gaining individual seats while still keeping the possibility of one ...

Comulative voting

Political systems; Political philosophy

Cumulative voting (also accumulation voting, weighted voting or multi-voting) is a multiple-winner voting system intended to promote more proportional representation than winner-take-all elections.

Gerontocracy

Political systems; Political philosophy

A gerontocracy is a form of oligarchical rule in which an entity is ruled by leaders who are significantly older than most of the adult population. Often the political structure is such that ...