Accountability of Parliament - Elections PAL1 by https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv Practice answers en-us 2017-06-23 02:28:21 UTC 2017-06-26 02:43:31 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Modern elections campaigns serve to hold political parties rather than parliamentarians to account. cainsworth https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177259928 Assess this statement.]]> 2017-06-23 02:31:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177259928 cainsworth https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177259955 Electoral accountability is more successful in the House of Representatives than the Senate. 
Assess this statement]]> 2017-06-23 02:32:42 UTC https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177259955 Siena Ellison (Q1) https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177265015 An election campaign is pursued by both parties in the period before the election to promote policies and convince constituents to vote for their party.  Over time the role of the House of Representatives as a People’s House and the Senate as a State’s house has diminished. Rather, both Houses have become relatively partisan, where the parties interest comes before delegate and state representation. Not only this, but such partisan impact is enhanced as the people tend to vote along party lines, rather than voting for members directly.  As result in modern day elections, parties tend to capitalise on this partisan interest and target each other’s parties rather than parliamentarians. This only encourages the public to hold parties to account, instead of parliamentarians. Although this is true for most parties, this is limited in terms of the two major parties as our elections have become more presidential and people usually vote and identify with that party based the leader, rather than the party and it's policy. ]]> 2017-06-23 04:39:00 UTC https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177265015 Izzy Brown (Q2) https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177404372 Electoral accountability relates to Members of Parliament being held responsible for their conduct, decisions or actions at elections with citizens able to punish or reward candidates for their actions or lack of, and is an essential feature of responsible parliamentary government.  Due to the majoritarian system with preferential voting used in the House of Representatives (HOR) (first adapted in 1919), and being single-member electorates, it can be seen that electoral accountability holds stronger than for the Senate. Contrary to the House of Representatives, the Senate uses proportional voting (adapted in 1949) to elect Senators from multi-member electorates. This makes it difficult for citizens to hold Senators to account for their actions. Through elections, the sovereignty of individuals is passed on to elected representatives]]> 2017-06-26 02:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177404372 Siena (Q2) https://padlet.com/cainsworth/k2kh05s164jv/wish/177406675  
Electoral accountability is the ability to check and balance the power of parliamentarians through the process of elections. This enables individuals to pass their sovereignty onto elected representatives, which is achieved in the House of Representatives (HOR) through preferential voting, shaping this House as a people’s house, where a single member represents the majoritarian views of a single electorate. On the contrary, the Senate has proportional voting, where members must gain a quota to win a seat. This gives this house it’s multimember nature and enables greater representation of minor parties. As a result of these opposing electoral processes, accountability tends to be more successful in the HOR than the Senate as it represents the majority, therefore is held accountable by the majority, the single member nature allows a member of the HOR be directly held accountable by their electorate, one vote-one value is maintained in this House and HOR voting is more frequent than that in the Senate. Therefore, the Senate does not permit the same degree of accountability as the HOR does due to it’s multi-member system. 
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