1. Slide
60 seconds
Additional Member System
Scottish Voting System
2. Poll
20 seconds
How do you feel about your knowledge of AMS?
- Prestructural
- Unistructural
- Multistructural
- Relational
- Extended Abstract
3. Slide
60 seconds
Task to be completed in jotters
4. Slide
60 seconds
We will do a copy of this in your jotter We will also do a copy as a challenge on Curipod
Table on voting systems
5. Slide
60 seconds
To learn the key features of the Additional Members System To be able to identify strengths and weaknesses of the voting system
Learning Intentions
6. Slide
60 seconds
Different voting systems are used for different elections in the UK Let's look at some of the vocabulary we need
Different systems in the UK
7. Slide
60 seconds
8. Slide
60 seconds
Constituencies
9. Slide
60 seconds
10. Poll
20 seconds
A safe seat is...
- A seat with a seatbelt
- A constituency that was won with a large majority
- A constituency that was won with a small majority
11. Slide
60 seconds
AMS - used in Scotland
Additional Member System
12. Slide
60 seconds
13. Slide
60 seconds
14. Slide
60 seconds
15. Slide
60 seconds
Close connection between your share of votes and your share of seats Allows for more opinions to be represented in Parliament Reduces wasted votes as people have the two votes
Advantages of AMS
16. Slide
60 seconds
17. Poll
20 seconds
Which of these is NOT an advantage of AMS?
- Allows for more opinions in Parliament
- Allows for a close link between vote and seat share
- Allows for extremist parties to get into power
18. Slide
60 seconds
Can often lead to minority which makes it harder to get anything done Can often lead to coalition governments and no one voted for that Role of the List/Regional MSP is not well understood and people do not know who they are
Disadvantages of AMS
19. Poll
20 seconds
Which of these IS a disadvantage of AMS?
- Can lead to a quick result
- Can lead to a coalition
- Can lead to a mistake
20. Slide
60 seconds
Task to be completed in jotters
21. Slide
60 seconds
Completed table
22. Slide
60 seconds
23. Drawings
360 seconds
Complete this table as well as you can
24. Poll
20 seconds
How do you feel about your knowledge of AMS?
- Prestructural
- Unistructural
- Multistructural
- Relational
- Extended Abstract
25. Slide
60 seconds
PEE chains
26. Slide
60 seconds
Explain, in detail, two advantages of a voting system that you have studied (6) Describe, in detail, two disadvantages of a voting system that you have studied (4) Explain, in detail, the advantages and disadvantages of a voting system that you have studied (8)
SQA questions
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