502: German Federal Election 2021

Rob and Tom are joined by Lucas Bender to discuss the 2021 German Election and what we have to expect from the coalition talks to come…

Topics

• [0:00] Intro

• [1:25] Headlines: Fuel Crisis!?

• [6:12] Headlines: Winter Of Discontent

• [16:14] Introducing Lucas

• [18:08] Main Story: German Election 2021

• [23:33] Election Night & The Parties

• [29:24] The Results

• [45:33] Olaf Scholz

• [54:00] Alterntive Für Deutschland

• [1:03:47] Demographic Shifts

• [1:14:38] Who Will Form The Next Government?

• [1:21:12] Traffic Light Coalition?

• [1:33:27] Outro

• [1:35:44] Ad: Hat Of Many Things

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Shownotes

• The Papers

• German Political Parties EXPLAINED

• Being a Woman in German Politics Still Isn’t Easy

• 2017 to 2021 Electoral Map

• Demographic Changes

• 16 years in 16 words: the sayings that sum up Merkel’s Germany

• German elections: Defeated Merkel heir Laschet prepared to resign

• German Election: Seat Breakdown

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Discuss

• Reddit

• Twitter

• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Ennuicastr

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Opinion Polls Germany 2021 by Gbuvn under CC by SA 4.0

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S03: Voting and Electoral Systems

Rob and Tom discuss the pros and cons of different voting systems, electoral systems and voter turnout.

Topics

• Voting Systems

  • First Past the Post

  • Alternative Vote

  • Proportional Representation

    • Single Transferable Vote

    • D’Hondt Formula

    • Hare and Droop

• Electoral Systems

• Voter Turnout

• UK Voting Reform

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Shownotes

• Types of Voting System

• YouTube - Politics in the Animal Kingdom

• Wikipedia - London Mayoral Elections

• Wikipedia - D’Hondt Method

• YouTube - D’Hondt with Jeremy Vine

• Wikipedia - Hare and Droop Comparison

• Parliament.uk - Turnout at Elections

• Pew Research - U.S. trails most developed countries in voter turnout

• Amazon: Comparing Democracies

• Wikipedia - Democracy Sausage

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Discuss

• Reddit

• Twitter

• Facebook

Attribution

• Recording engineer: Craig

• Theme song: Handel's Water Music (Public Domain under CC0 1.0) with Big Ben Chimes (By hyderpotter under CC0 1.0).

• Main Image: Voting Screen - Cartoon by DonkeyHotey [CC by A 2.0]

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