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    Megastudy testing 25 ways to reduce antidemocratic attitudes, partisan animosity

    (www.science.org)
    15 points rbanffy | 11 comments | 22 Oct 24 14:10 UTC | HN request time: 0.665s | source | bottom
    1. ◴[22 Oct 24 14:21 UTC] No.41914603[source]▶
    2. yarg ◴[22 Oct 24 14:26 UTC] No.41914651[source]▶
    Ranked choice voting seems like the most reasonable choice - the current FPP system lends itself to strategic voting and a two-party system with increasingly polarised parties.

    Ranked choice allows for a middle ground to form independently of the parties at the outer fringes - it doesn't necessarily mean the centre wins, but it does exist and have a chance.

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    3. rbanffy ◴[22 Oct 24 14:30 UTC] No.41914682[source]▶
    It's one of the reasons politics in Ireland are so stable and monotonous. Mind you, I'm not complaining. I chose to live here precisely for that reason.
    4. h2odragon ◴[22 Oct 24 15:32 UTC] No.41915292[source]▶
    Its "Pray the Populism Away" conversion therapy.
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    5. marcosdumay ◴[22 Oct 24 15:45 UTC] No.41915486[source]▶
    It doesn't scale very well into a large number of votes or a large number of candidates. Unless you decentralize everything and let the computer handle all of the details. But both of those are huge issues.
    6. caekislove ◴[22 Oct 24 15:55 UTC] No.41915587[source]▶
    "Efficacious strategies for reducing support for undemocratic practices included correcting misperceptions of rival partisans’ views and highlighting the risk of democratic collapse. "

    In other words, gaslighting and threats.

    7. ahdhfjfnfjf ◴[22 Oct 24 16:04 UTC] No.41915689[source]▶
    Almost entirely democratic societies always end up fragmented like America. This was known in Plato’s time.

    Unfortunately the propaganda pushers these days get to publish articles on “science.org”, trying to convince us the system is fundamentally sound - we just need some tweaks.

    8. slowmovintarget ◴[22 Oct 24 16:13 UTC] No.41915794[source]▶
    The Pollyanna view of ranked-choice voting presented on TV doesn't really work out in the real world.

    Veritasium video on voting systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qf7ws2DF-zk

    https://electionscience.org/research-hub/the-limits-of-ranke...

    9. sambapa ◴[22 Oct 24 16:17 UTC] No.41915843[source]▶
    What if people democratically choose antidemocracy?
    10. FooBarBizBazz ◴[22 Oct 24 16:30 UTC] No.41916001[source]▶
    It depends what one means by "populism". If you include Bernie-style politics as "populist" along with the Trump variety, then polarization and an inability to find commonality are the things that frustrate populist goals: They are what keep the horseshoe split.