So, on Monday I need to hand in a paper on the Green party. I picked an examination of the role of preportionate representation on fringe party power, but I’m not quite sure how to narrow my topic down into something I both have lots of data to cite, and is relavant to my topic. Orgionally I wanted to do a paper on the effect of the international nature of the Green Party on Canadian voter perception, but there’s no data to speak of on the subject.
The topic I chose should be relatively easy, but I can’t find the journal article I need. Unfortunatly proportionate representation is a subject that’s been studied to tiny details, and the search systems seem unable to compensate for the common nature of the key words I want. However, this is not my thesis, it’s a minor paper (even despite it’s meaty length), so I think I can cobble something together with the research I did glean.
Basically the thrust of my paper is that a small, fringe party is screwed in a first past the post system, and inroads by the Greens have usually been fueled by a system that favours actual popularity, not majority-in-riding. Now I just need to put this together in a coherent way by 3 PM Monday.