¿Hay que eliminar el sistema binominal? Una propuesta alternativa

Authors

  • J. Samuel Valenzuela University of Notre Dame

Abstract

This article develops a proposal of reform to the current binominal electoral system in Chile, presenting an alternative for transforming its main disadvantages without its total replacement. Therefore this alternative implies a less drastical change than moving to proportional representation (PR), which makes it unnecessary to revise the distribution of the representative's numbers by unit of representation. Furthermore, by maintaining the basic aspect of the binominal formula, this reform does not alter the conditions under which the current legislators were elected as such. Then less reluctance should arise on its behalf.    

Author Biography

J. Samuel Valenzuela, University of Notre Dame

profesor de sociología de la Universidad de Notre Dame. Fue profesor visitante de l’Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po) de París y Visiting Fellow en St. Antony’s College de la Universidad de Oxford. Ha sido becario de diferentes fundaciones entre las cuales la Guggenheim (1996). Entre sus publicaciones destacan Scott Mainwaring, Guillermo O’Donnell y J. Samuel Valenzuela, eds., Issuesin Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in ComparativePerspective. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1992 o J. Samuel Valenzuela and Arturo Valenzuela, eds., Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.