Oversight Hearing: U.S. Refugee Admissions and Policy: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security
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ISBN10: 1234397080
ISBN13: 9781234397081
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.24 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781234397081
Publisher: Books Llc
Pages: 114
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.24 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914 edition. Excerpt: ...that make unanimous con- stituencies impossible is very far from being rational or effective voting. When this is the object in view, the preferential ballot itself should be used, but the rules for counting it should be unanimous-constituency or proportional rules instead of majority rules. Fifty years hence it will be obvious to everybody that the preferential or adequate ballot should be used in all voting whatsoever, and that when it is used, ofiicially supervised primary elections are useless; but it will be equally obvious that there are two objects of voting, quite distinct from each other, the making of decisions, in which majority voting is in order, and the making up of a. body fit to make them on behalf of all the people, in which majority voting is quite out of order. COMPARISON WITH THE ORDINARY COMMISSION PLAN This brings us back to the comparison of the ordinary Commission Plan with the City Manager Plan with proportional representation. Under the former, since the commissioners are primarily administrators--being a sort of executive committee of the majority--they should be elected at large by the majority system of voting, as in fact they are. But when they are elected thus, the city is left without the services of any body that even pretends to be representative of all the voters. The ordinary Commission Plan, therefore, is weaker than the City Manager Plan with proportional representation not only in having its chief administrators on a nonprofessional basis, which must make the highest efficiency in administration impossible, but in depriving the city altogether of the services of a truly representative body composed of more or less experienced leaders of public opinion. HARE PLAN OF PROPORTIONAL...