Rules and effects around who votes and how districts and systems shape results, including universal suffrage, gerrymandering and Duverger's law. A mechanism belongs here when its cited article treats it as a franchise, districting or electoral-effects topic. The group sits under the Electoral Systems and Voting Methods subcategory of the Political Atlas and helps a reader browse that subcategory by the kind of rule each mechanism sets. Each member is placed on the strength of the article it cites, so a reader can follow the grouping back to a stated source.
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Universal suffrage (Wikipedia)
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Universal suffrage or universal franchise refers to the right to vote being available for all adults within a jurisdiction.
Gerrymandering (Wikipedia)
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Gerrymandering ( JERR-ee-, originally GHERR-ee-), defined in the contexts of representative electoral systems, is the political manipulation of electoral district boundaries to advantage a party, group, or socioeconomic class within the constituency.
Duverger's law (Wikipedia)
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In political science, Duverger's law ( DOO-vər-zhay) holds that in political systems with single-member districts and the first-past-the-post voting system, as in, for example, the United States and United Kingdom, only two powerful political parties tend to control power every election cycle.
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