Electoral Laws on Party Systems Term Paper

However, the system is much more representative. Thus, in the British Parliament there are representatives from the Scottish parliament as well as from the Northern Ireland Assembly. Even so, the proposals for the reform of the electoral law and program have tried to ease the access of the population to the voting system, to increase the public awareness in relation to the political representation. This would determine a better ethnical and religious representation on the one hand, an element that would help the issues with Northern Ireland. At the same time, it would influence the way in which people express their opinions, views, and preferences, which would in time determine a change in the economic and political decisions taken at the level of the Parliament.

Changes such as the ones from Russia and Britain can affect to a certain point the American political framework. The Russian democracy cannot be considered to be superior to the U.S.'s. However, a democratization of the Russian political environment would determine the improvement of the relations between the two countries. On the other hand however, the British reformation attempts can prove useful for the U.S. because it could show the way in which better representativeness can be achieved. More precisely, seeing that both countries are faced with similar turnout problems, the methods implemented in the UK can be adapted to the U.S. model. At the same time, the methods used to increase representativeness in the country could be useful for insuring that minorities in the U.S. are better represented in terms of their political rights.

Overall, it can be concluded that democracy can be interpreted. The political party system is essential however, for ensuring the basic elements of a democratic political construction. Therefore, the power sharing system, the representative system, that is present in Russia and the UK are important for the guarantee of democracy. On the other hand, in Russia there is need for a strong and tough reform of the electoral and political system in order to reach the status of the United Kingdom.

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