KATHMANDU, Dec 31: Introduced with the promise of bringing Nepal’s marginalised and excluded communities into the political ...
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PR disaster

A few good picks can’t justify widespread capture of Proportional Representation seats by powerful elites.
Political parties have begun submitting their closed lists under the Proportional Representation (PR) electoral system for ...
Political parties in Nepal face scrutiny for submitting proportional representation (PR) candidate lists dominated by elites, ...
Democracy, in the immortal words of President Abraham Lincoln, is a government of the people, by the people, for the people. This pithy description makes democracy a sacrosanct concept that endures ...
Ballot position effects have been documented across a variety of political and electoral systems. In general, knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is limited. There is also little research on such ...
In the 1920s and early ’30s, a movement experiment with PR grew in New York. When proportional representation was adopted in ...