Timeline for How do political parties maintain local representation within proportional representation system?
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 10:18 | comment | added | gerrit | @TooTea Fair enough. I've added a line explaining a bit on lijstduwer, and a bit on the observation that The Netherlands does have urban-rural or central-periphery divisions. But I think a farmer from rural Overijssel would consider their interests may well be represented by someone from rural Groningen and vice versa, despite the distance between them being a substantial fraction of the size of the country. | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 10:16 | history | edited | gerrit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 9:06 | comment | added | TooTea | To explain the weird-sounding term lijstduwer, it's worth mentioning that the electoral leader of every party is called a lijsttrekker (list puller). So every party list has the well-known person you see on TV every day "pulling" from the first position and some locals "pushing" from the back. And regarding everybody living close to everybody else, that also means that voters from different parts of the country have very similar interests if they come from similar kinds of environment (all the Randstad cities want the same things, all the farming-heavy regions have similar needs, …). | |
| Jun 22, 2022 at 8:08 | history | edited | gerrit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 22, 2022 at 8:02 | history | answered | gerrit | CC BY-SA 4.0 |