What are the advantages of PR?
A. One result of PR is opening up the political process. Without PR, democracies tend to either be two party systems (e.g. USA), or 3 party systems in which the majority party, the party in control, does not actually have the support of the majority of the people in that country (e.g. the United Kingdom, Canada). With PR, depending on the type of PR and the specific country, there are usually around 7 or 8 parties, and they usually form stable coaltion governments. Now, if you think the two-party system is a good thing, then you should oppose PR, because it would surely result in a multi-party system. But, if you, like most Americans, believe that we should have more than two parties representing America, then you should consider this a major advantage. A second advantage is that generally speaking more people vote when PR is used. Some people claim that if we used PR here in the U.S., that our turnout would rival Europian countries typical turnout of appr. 85%. While that would be ver
