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PR results do require a shift to consensus and collaborative governing
I don't think that's what these systems generate in practice. It seems more common that unrelated issues are traded off against each other with some kind of tally in the background, leading to a disjointed policy programme.
The experience of the coalition post 2010 in the UK bears that out for me. We didn't get a broad Lib-Con compromise, we got the Con programme with some random goodies like the AV referendum thrown to the Lib Dems.
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The Lib Dems and Tories was a minor inexperienced party getting screwed.
See also the Greens in RO Ireland.
PR does work ok in other countries. And Scotland Wales NI (if we had not had a
.. history here)But yes, you need to think carefully on how to set up the governing structure.
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Re the coalition - that is exactly my point that it will take a long while for politicians to work out how to effectively work in coalitions. But even at the start, IMO it'll be better and fairer than what we have now.
JWestland
villa-ru
While not a silver bullet, PR results do require a shift to consensus and collaborative governing. If it comes in it will take a generation of politicians to learn how to work this way and move on from the ingrained adversarial politics we are currently at the depths of. Hopefully will make government/politics far more boring - we could do with that.