| 单词 | proportional representation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasproportional representation proportional representation n. [after French représentation proportionnelle (1839)] Politics parliamentary representation based on numerical rather than regional division of the electorate; spec. a system in which each party gains seats in proportion to the total number of votes it receives, usually by means of a form of transferable vote (see transferable adj. Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > election of representative body by vote > right to vote at elections > [noun] > system of representation proportional representation1870 PR1885 proportionalism1885 1870 Times 14 Feb. 8/6 In the States of America, in the Cantons of Switzerland, in the Empire of France proportional representation is the creed of all the men in the front rank of the party of movement. 1873 J. S. Mill Autobiogr. vii. 302 The two greatest improvements which remain to be made in Representative Government... One of them was Personal, or, as it is called with equal propriety, Proportional Representation. 1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 19 Dec. 3/1 Proportional Representation finds little favour with the caucuses. 1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 206 Proportional representation would increase Communist and Gaullist representation. 2003 J. Moon & C. Sharman Austral. Polit. & Government i. 7 A variety of forms of proportional representation have been tried for both lower and upper houses in a number of states. < as lemmas |
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