A common complaint or source of disenfranchisement in democracies is that many constituents don't feel that their vote "counts" because the margin in most electorates is far greater than a single vote. What if, in a single-transferable-vote system, the representative elected was subsequently giv...

Anecdotally, I have found that anyone I personally know who is a first-generation immigrant from either Africa, or non-Hispanic Caribbean (less so) is a lot more likely to be "righter-wing" in their views, especially socially, than African Americans (defined here to be descendants of Africans who...

This excerpt of a Russian newspaper says: On December 4 {1939}, comrade Molotov has telegraphed to Avenol. In his answer, he stated that there are no reasons for raising "Finnish question", since the USSR is not in war with Finland. Instead, it helps the People's government of FDR (Finnis...

As far as I know, political parties favour some music genres more than others to sell their outlook and policies. Or at least I never heard classical music or death metal being used. Which music genres are used most extensively by political parties? Do these differ by party?

Here's a set of facts: 1)The US Senate isn't proportional representative. Each state gets 2 senators regardless of population. If you tediously crunch the numbers, the Democratic members of our senate were elected by several million more people than the Republicans, even adjusting for the fact t...