In today’s modern day politics, France is seen a country with a party system consisting of both a presidential and parliamentary system of government—a hybrid form of government. What a presidential system of government embodies is that, the head of the government is also the head of state, in addition to this, the head of government is in charge of the executive branch; while a parliamentary system of government emphasis is on passing laws in which the executive branches will one day carry out. France by having this hybrid form of government, there needs to be a balance so both these systems of government can coincide with one another. Ultimately, France came to the conclusion that there will be a President who will be head of state, however by that …show more content…
Take a look at Germany, Germany’s electoral system is based off of two components, “a proportional system, in which a party’s share of legislative mandates is proportional to its popular vote, and a plurality, […] under which ‘losing’ parties and candidates (and their votes) receive no participation” (Hancock 273). Although Germany 's electoral system is composed of two subsections—proportional and plurality—Donald Hancock author of Politics in Europe, states that it is essentially a proportional representation system. Reason as to why Germany choice this method of an electoral system can only be based on opinion; a theory can derive that from combining plurality and proportional representation it introduced a “‘personalized’ component into elections and give voters a [means] of identifying with ‘their’ parliamentary deputy. Coincidently, the Swedish form of the electoral system has slim similarities to those of Germany—they each utilize proportional representation, but Sweden does not use plurality. However, with every action taken there is a reasoning behind such decision, therefore, Germany wanted a “personalized” component in elections, rather “the Swedish electoral system is based on universal suffrage” (“Elections in Sweden”). Similar to Sweden, France has an electoral system which is based on the principle of “universal suffrage”, in addition to