As Japan heads into election season, prognosticators assert the inevitability of dramatic defeat for the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). This potentially major shift in Japanese politics presents an opportunity for structural electoral reform of Japan's outaded parallel list system.

Former Australian Greens candidate Ben Raue writes on Australia's use of an instant runoff voting system in state and federal legislative elections, and the increased legitimacy and indepdence that IRV can provide to third parties.