ext_224911 ([identity profile] zenicurean.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] tcpip 2012-10-08 07:53 pm (UTC)

Linus is right, I think; that is a characteristically Finnish view. In fact, Finland has one of those rainbow coalitions right now. I do recognise the merits and flaws in both FPtP and PR, and I believe that to an extent it is a matter of subjective preference which set of merits and flaws one prefers, but I know I would be endlessly frustrated if American-style attack ads or some such thing ever successfully reached Helsinki. (Although to what extent the prevalence of such phenomena depends on electoral system, I'm not too clear on. It's certainly true Finnish society has been sharply... let's say violently bifurcated by political differences in the past. We got better.)

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