Douglas Todd: Five empirical reasons to lean to pro-rep

Maybe academics aren’t collectively the sexiest bunch. And it’s true that policy wonks can’t compete with movie or sports stars for the spotlight. Nevertheless, opinion polls consistently show that the public places some trust in professors.
So why are scholars’ studies largely ignored in B.C.’s referendum over proportional representation?
Researchers are often going through data to compare nations that use some form of proportional representation to those that use