evidence: Skip to main content [...] Overall, many voters seem to be most in favour of a system known as proportional representation, in which political parties are represented in governments roughly according to their vote share. Voters in democracies that use this system, such as Denmark and Ireland, tend to have relatively high approval ratings for democracy in their nation, and relatively high turnouts. But this pattern is clearest in wealthy countries. There are drawbacks to proportional representation and many nations have stuck with other systems such as ‘first past the post’ (FPTP) and its variants. [...] Giving the public what it wants