Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Jesse, Eckhard

Titel

Plädoyer für ein Einstimmensystem bei der Bundestagswahl, ergänzt um eine Ersatzstimme

Ist Teil von

• Zeitschrift für Parlamentsfragen, 2016-01, Vol.47 (4), p.893-903

Ort / Verlag

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Germany's two-vote system – effective at the federal level since 1953 and adopted by most of the 16 states thereafter – shows several deficits. For instance, due to the fact that the electorate does not base its electoral choice on the local candidates' political profile, the first vote has never attained its intended role of a "personal vote". That is why in most cases the first vote hinges on the second vote: Being somewhat opaque to most people, the first vote is considered to be a vote of secondary importance. Turning back to the one-vote system of 1949 would imply that the electors' vote is accounted for in a twofold manner: once for the candidate, once for his or her party. However, the electorate should be given a complementary vote that is deployed whenever the main vote is cast in favour of a person/a party that falls short off the five-percent threshold. As a result, the problem of wasted votes would be dramatically reduced.