{"id":65791,"date":"2015-03-15T08:54:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65791"},"modified":"2015-03-15T08:54:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T16:54:00","slug":"israels-electoral-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65791","title":{"rendered":"Israel&#8217;s Electoral System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Hazony writes on FB: Fact: Israel&#8217;s electoral system is actually one of the simplest in the democratic world. No multiple houses, no districts or run-off elections, no separate elected branches with voting at different times for different parts of it. So please stop using the word &#8220;complex&#8221; when what you mean is &#8220;different from ours.&#8221; The only thing complex is the negotiations that ensue to form a government after the voters have had their say&#8211;a process that reflects that complexity of the society itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Hazony writes on FB: Fact: Israel&#8217;s electoral system is actually one of the simplest in the democratic world. No multiple houses, no districts or run-off elections, no separate elected branches with voting at different times for different parts of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=65791\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-israel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65791"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65792,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65791\/revisions\/65792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}