scholarly journals Proportional Representation in Ireland

1920 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Municipal Elections ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
Successful Trial ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Made In

In January, 1919, a successful trial of proportional representation was made in the municipal elections of Sligo, and in the following July a local government (Ireland) act extended the system to all Irish municipal elections. The form employed is the Hare plan, the “single transferable vote,” as it is usually called in the United Kingdom. On January 15, 1920, the first general trial of the new scheme was made, when elections were carried out in 127 Irish municipalities.

scholarly journals Electoral Systems in Context

2017 ◽  
pp. 626-650 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Carl Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Electoral Systems ◽  
Electoral System ◽  
Party Systems ◽  
Proportional Representation ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Late Twentieth ◽  
Election Results ◽  
Late Twentieth Century

The United Kingdom is well known for the single-member plurality or, more colloquially, the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system. Devolution of power in the late twentieth century, however, introduced new bodies and positions with new electoral systems, with the total reaching six. These consisted of three majoritarian systems (FPTP, multiple nontransferable vote, and supplementary vote) and three proportional systems (single transferable vote, mixed-member proportional representation, and regional list proportional representation). Sample election results are presented and examined. Despite the presence of several different electoral systems and party systems in the United Kingdom with the development of multilevel governance, FPTP appears to be entrenched at Westminster, just as FPTP systems abroad have, in most cases, also resisted change.

scholarly journals Did That Lost Ballot Box Cost Me a Seat? Computing Manipulations of STV Elections

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (08) ◽  
pp. 13235-13240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle Blom ◽  
Andrew Conway ◽  
Peter J. Stuckey ◽  
Vanessa J. Teague
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Voting Systems ◽  
Federal Election ◽  
Single Transferable Vote ◽  
The United Kingdom

Mistakes made by humans, or machines, commonly arise when managing ballots cast in an election. In the 2013 Australian Federal Election, for example, 1,370 West Australian Senate ballots were lost, eventually leading to a costly re-run of the election. Other mistakes include ballots that are misrecorded by electronic voting systems, voters that cast invalid ballots, or vote multiple times at different polling locations. We present a method for assessing whether such problems could have made a difference to the outcome of a Single Transferable Vote (STV) election – a complex system of preferential voting for multi-seat elections. It is used widely in Australia, in Ireland, and in a range of local government elections in the United Kingdom and United States.

State Succession to Human Rights Treaties: Hong Kong and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights

1996 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 928-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johannes Chan
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Human Rights Treaties ◽  
State Succession ◽  
Civil And Political Rights ◽  
Made In

In 1976 the United Kingdom ratified the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and extended it to Hong Kong. Under the Covenant the United Kingdom assumed an obligation to submit periodic reports to the Human Rights Committee on the measures it has adopted to give effect to the rights recognised by the Covenant and on the progress made in the enjoyment of these rights.1 The United Kingdom has submitted four periodic reports on Hong Kong, in 1978,2 1988,3 19914 and 1995.5

International Telecommunications Union

1947 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-149
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Telecommunications ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Made In

Established in 1932 by the Madrid Radio-telegraph Conference as a successor to the International Telegraph Union, the International Telecommunications Union held a meeting in Moscow September 28 to discuss necessary revisions to be made in the Madrid Convention, and to hold informal preliminary discussions prior to the calling of a World Telecommunications Conference. Delegates were present from China, France, USSR, the United Kingdom and the United States.

The Role of Performance Indicators in Housing Management: A Critique

1994 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 609-621 ◽  
Author(s):  
R Smith ◽  
R Walker
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Performance Indicators ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Housing Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

In this paper an evaluation of the housing management performance indicators regime in the United Kingdom is provided. First, the context in which performance measurement in the housing service in the United Kingdom has developed is set and lessons are drawn from the use of statutory indicators following the Local Government and Housing Act 1989. By examining the performance indicator regime in Wales it is suggested that the regime is flawed because it provides information which points towards the economic efficiency of service provision rather than explaining the effectiveness of services. This is compounded by the multiple audience that the performance indicator regime is targeted at: tenants, local government, and central government. The conflict arising from the multiple target groups results in the regime being unable to serve properly its primary audience, that is, tenants. To conclude the paper, some alternatives are suggested, and the need for performance indicators to be seen as tools for evaluating the relative efficiency and effectiveness of local authority housing management over time is highlighted.

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