Why our media is wrong to say proportional representation helps the extreme right
(World News UK)

The UK media likes to blame far right gains elsewhere - as in Sweden´s recent election - on PR. In fact the evidence shows disproportional voting systems give more power to the extreme right. Image: Hungarians protesting Orb á n`s election system, April 2018. Rights: Wiktor Dabkowski/PA Images, all rights reserved Reading the headlines, you would be forgiven for thinking that the recent Swedish general election had been a sweeping victory for the far right. ` Chilling rise of the far right in Sweden `, reads a typically ominous example. Commentators in the Anglosphere have been quick to blame Sweden´s use of Proportional Representation - the kind of voting system that ensures Parliaments...