How are democratic systems in Europe different from American system?

Answer 1

In the USA, the college system is used.

Each State holds First Past The Post election. Whichever party gets the most votes (even by a single vote) wins that State.
That State then gives ALL of it's college points to the winning party.

After every State has given out its college vots, the party with the most college votes wins the election and gets to run (or ruin) the world for at least the next 4 years.

The main problem with this way of voting is that a party can win the election with hardly any of the population voting for them:

California has 55 college votes. Texas has 34 college votes. Florida has 27. Together that makes 116.
For example, if the Republicans won each of those three states by a single vote, they would have 116 College votes, but with only 51% of the public vote.

If every single person in Washington(11), Oregon(7), Monatna(3), Idaho(4), Nevada(5), Utah(5), Wyoming(3), North Dakota(3), South Dakota(3), Nabraska(5), Kansas(6), Oklahoma(7), Arizona (10), New Mexico (5), Minnesota(10), Iowa (7), Alabama(9), Louisiana(9) and Maine(4) all voted for the Democrats, they would also have 116 college votes AND 100% of the public vote.

So the parties would be tied even though many, many more people would have voted for the Democrats.

It's a weird system and it only barely works.

Answer 2

Cade has given an excellent answer about the US system of political elections.
In many of the European countries the people elect their Presidents, Prime Ministers and elected politicians directly. They also have much better checks and balances on the activities of those politicians, something that is lacking in the US.

Answer 3

America has a democratic system??

Answer 4

Some have better teeth than others.