Germany and the hazards of proportional representationIn the recent September 18 German election, that country’s conservative Christian Democrats, plus the Free Democrats, have not been able to improve on the vote they received in the preceding two elections.Germans are against drastic change, it would appear, and the opposition Christian Democrat Union (CDU) leader Angela Merkel was a weak candidate.German conservatives face perhaps an insoluble dilemma, for if they move further right, advocati…
