Plurality voting system — The plurality voting system is a single winner voting system often used to elect executive officers or to elect members of a legislative assembly which is based on single member constituencies.The most common system, used in Canada, India, the UK … Wikipedia
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Micromega rule — Regarding the choice of electoral systems by political parties, the Micro mega rule holds that ‘the large prefer the small and the small prefer the large’: The ‘Micro mega’ reference is the title of a Voltaire’s tale in which dwarfs and giants… … Wikipedia
Majority rule — Majority Rules redirects here. For Canadian comedy show, see Majority Rules!. Part of the Politics series Electoral methods … Wikipedia
Righthand head rule — In generative morphology, the righthand head rule is a of grammar that specifies that the rightmost morpheme in a morphological structure is always the head. What this means is that it is the righthand element that provides the primary syntactic… … Wikipedia
Cube rule — The cube rule or cube law is an empirical observation regarding democratic elections under the first past the post system. The rule suggests that the party getting the most votes is over represented (and conversely, the party getting the least… … Wikipedia
Duverger's law — In political science, Duverger s law is a principle which asserts that a plurality rule election system tends to favor a two party system. This is one of two hypotheses proposed by Duverger, the second stating that “the double ballot majority… … Wikipedia
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United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
Spain — /spayn/, n. a kingdom in SW Europe. Including the Balearic and Canary islands, 39,244,195; 194,988 sq. mi. (505,019 sq. km). Cap.: Madrid. Spanish, España. * * * Spain Introduction Spain Background: Spain s powerful world empire of the 16th and… … Universalium
Ockham’s world and future — Arthur Gibson PHILOSOPHICAL BIOGRAPHY Ockham was born in about 1285, certainly before 1290, probably in the village of Ockham, Surrey, near London. If his epitaph is accurate, he died on 10 April 1347. Yet Conrad of Megenberg, when writing to… … History of philosophy