Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis
Context Phase
Professor David Farrell:
No, what is causing things to happen is not the electoral system, it is the culture of how politics operates. There have been four cases on this planet of electoral reform in the past 50 years, in France, Italy, New Zealand and Japan. They are the only four countries that have established democracies that have changed their electoral systems and none of those changes have fixed the problem they were supposed to fix.
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