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Originally Posted by Dec  I'm far more concerned about our own flawed (and corrupt) electoral system than some other countries, but I understand that it's a lot easier to point fingers at other countries than look at our own problem. |
Average corruption index score from transparency international:-
Under FPTP - 3.87 (Including upper/lower chamber and presidential votes, used in total in 63 elections*)
Under STV - 7.52 (Upper/lower chamber votes, used in 5 elections*)
UK's corruption index score:- 7.7 (Which puts it in the second tier of nations corruption wise IIRC - it's also a similar average that electoral college systems score but I only have a sample of two for that system.)
(Where lower scores are more corrupt and higher scores less so. Most Scandinavian countries are in the 9's. Denmark scoring as the least corrupt country)
There are arguments for and against FPTP. Personally I'd favour an elected house of lords elected by STV and a mixture of FPTP and STV in the commons. Ideally we'd get rid of the monarchy and be able to elect the executive branch of govt. Either in it's entirety or just the head of state.
*From the sources I used, more accurate ones are probably avaliable.
