I have selected the UK as it is both the "original and best-known example" (Lijphart, 1999, p.9) of the majoritarian model, while the Netherlands is a strong consensus democracy and is easily comparable to the UK as both countries are European and parliamentary countries. While I realise that the comparison between these two countries is insufficient to make conclusive claims about consensus and majoritarian systems as a whole, it does allow us to see how both systems perform in practice and therefore any results found could be used to make general observations about their democratic...

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