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Evaluating the Strengths and Weaknesses of Adopting PR in UK Elections

This activity aims to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the UK adopting proportional representation (PR) in elections. Students will analyze different voting systems based on McNaughton's criteria and compare their results with existing research. The activity also includes reading exercises on the impact of PR on small parties and the positive or negative effects of experimenting with PR in UK elections. The plenary session involves discussing reasons for and against adopting PR, while the extension task involves creating a factoid on voting systems used around the world. Finally, students are assigned a slip test as homework to prepare for a practice paper on electoral systems.

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Evaluating the Strengths and Weaknesses of Adopting PR in UK Elections

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  1. starter activity Take a card and decide which voting system is represented.

  2. Is PR such a bad thing?  Aims To assess the strengths and weaknesses of the UK adopting PR in elections

  3. Evaluating electoral systems • McNaughton has suggested 4 principal objectives: • Decisive govt. • Political representation, with seats in prop. to votes • Social representation, with representatives in prop. to social make up of society • Choice between candidates & parties

  4.  Your task • Look at the table on the next slide, and apply Naughton’s criteria to the different voting systems. What score do you give each system? Compare your results with the Box 4.7 in Roberts, p.66.

  5. 10 points allocated to each aim. 10 points if objective is totally reached and 0 if the objective is totally ignored.

  6. 10 points allocated to each aim. 10 points if objective is totally reached and 0 if the objective is totally ignored.

  7.  Your task • Does the use of PR encourage small parties? Read Watts, p.52 and note evidence it does or does not create small parties.

  8.  Your task • Read p.52-55 and complete a table noting the evidence of that experimenting with PR has had a positive or negative effect in UK elections

  9.  Plenary • Give 3 reasons why the UK should use PR in GEs • Give 3 reasons why PR should not be adopted

  10.  Extension task • Produce a factoid for the class with information on the different voting systems used around the world, the representation of smaller parties, voter turnout and government stability

  11.  Homework • Prepare for a slip test on electoral systems • Your teach will give you your first practice paper on voting systems

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