The non-existence of a district electoral system and the consequences of the adoption of the German electoral system in Brazil
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Sistemas eleitorais misto e alemão, Majoritário e proporcional.Abstract
The german electoral system has always arousen the interest of those insatisfied with the present brazilian representative model. What is more, not only in Brazil, this electoral system has been considered as a paradigm of a third category of electoral systems, i.e., the mixed systems, which would combine elements of the two others branches of electoral systems, the majority and proportional systems. On this article it is possible to reach the conclusion that the mentioned third category of electoral systems does not exist and that the german system is inserted in the proportional representation category, which would decrease the difficulty of his adoption in Brazil.
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