Political Scientist: Advocates for the new electoral reform argue that it will reduce political polarization by encouraging candidates to appeal to the ideological center. However, this expectation assumes that voters in the center hold consistently moderate views. In reality, the "center" is largely composed of voters with highly divergent, extreme views on different single issues; they only appear moderate when their positions are aggregated. Therefore, the reform will likely force candidates to adopt a disjointed array of extreme positions to capture these crucial voters, ultimately failing to reduce polarization.
The political scientist's argument proceeds by exposing an ambiguity in the advocates' use of a key demographic term.
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