You're invited! Webinar July 10: Proportional Representation and Governance

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Published on Friday, 08 July 2016 15:00
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You're Invited! Proportional Representation and Governance

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Sunday July 10, 1 PM EDT

The process to achieve proportional representation for 2019 is moving full steam ahead! The Electoral Reform Committee is now hearing expert witnesses and MPs have been invited to hold town halls.

We're delighted to be joined on this webinar by Salomon Orellana, author of the 2014 book "Electoral Systems and Governance: How Diversity Can Improve Policy Making."
Orellana's work, building on decades of research on electoral systems, explores how and why proportional representation is associated with:

  • more policy innovation
  • a willingness to implement longer term solutions
  • more meaningful election coverage by media and
  • a stronger ability by governments to resist the power of elite interests in the policy making process.

We invite you to join us on Sunday, July 10 at 1 PM EDT for a webinar to learn from Salomon about his research first hand. Register here!

1:00-1:25: Make Every Vote Count - PR/Campaign 101 (if you're new to the campaign and have never joined a FVC webinar, join us here!)

1:25-1:55: Electoral Systems and Governance - with special guest Salomon Orellana

Followed by Q+A where you can ask questions via a chat box. We will answer as many as we can.

Special Guest:

David Farrell


Salomon Orellana completed his Ph.D. in Political Science (with a concentration in Comparative Politics and Quantitative Methods) at Michigan State University, in 2009. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Michigan Dearborn. His research focuses on the influence of electoral systems on governance. In his recent book, Electoral Systems and Governance: How Diversity Can Improve Policy Making, Dr. Orellana focuses on how electoral systems influence policy making performance. He argues that countries with more diverse party systems tend to perform better than countries with less diverse party systems on a variety of policy indicators, such as extending rights to same-sex couples, reducing CO2 emissions, reducing incarceration rates, and addressing elite extraction (when economic elites maximize profits at the expense of consumers)

You can attend the entire webinar, or if you've seen the introductory 101 presentation before you can jump on at 1:25 EDT for our special guest.

Please share this webinar with friends who might be interested. The poster is also up on our facebook wall. Thanks for supporting the campaign to Make Every Vote Count!


Sincerely,
Anita Nickerson
FVC Action Coordinator

P.S. If you haven't already, please take a moment to ask your MP to keep you informed about their electoral reform town hall!

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