Proportional Representation and Constituent Assembly

Domenico Empoli, Corrado Malandrino and Valerio Zanone
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Domenico Empoli: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi per Studi di Politica ed Economia
Corrado Malandrino: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi per Studi di Politica ed Economia
Valerio Zanone: Fondazione Luigi Einaudi per Studi di Politica ed Economia

Chapter 13 in Luigi Einaudi: Selected Political Essays, Volume 3, 2014, pp 139-143 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Under proportional representation the large constituency is unsuitable for the ordinary upper and lower house of parliament, because it cannot lead to majority governments, that is to say, it is unable to create governments and change them without recourse to violence. Therefore anyone who is unwilling to forgo the parliamentary method of forming a government or a cabinet, or who does not favour the American or Swiss method in which executive power is based on a source other than the parliamentary balance of power (universal suffrage and direct election of the president, with the cabinet being responsible only to the president and not to the Houses; or direct election of the ministers by the people, as in the Swiss cantons, or by the assembly of the two Houses as in the Swiss Confederation) but prefers instead to endorse the traditional English method of cabinets based on the trust of the elective House, cannot fail to reject the large constituency system, with proportional representation, because it is incapable of creating and changing stable governments.

Keywords: Proportional Representation; Large Constituency; Electoral Constituency; Constituent Assembly; Electoral Manifesto (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137345035_14

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