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Encyclopedia: Two-party system

A two-party system is a form of party system where two major political parties dominate the voting in nearly all elections. As a result, all, or nearly all, elected offices end up being held by candidates endorsed by the two major parties. Coalition governments occur only rarely in two-party systems, though each party may internally look like a coalition.

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How to say "Two-party system" in other languages:

	(Chinese)	兩黨制
	(Japanese)	二大政党制
	(German)	Zweiparteiensystem
	(Spanish)	Sistema bipartidista
	(French)	Bipartisme
	(Italian)	Bipartitismo

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Crashing the Party

Crashing the Party a book by Ralph Nader detailing his experiences running in the 2000 US Presidential Election. It is told chronologically and in the first person. He is unapologetic, and tells why he decided to run. He details many of the problems a third party encounters in a two-party system...

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Maurice Duverger

Maurice Duverger (born June 5, 1917) is a French jurist born in Angoulême, France. He devised a theory which became known as Duverger's law, which identifies a correlation between voting systems and the formation of a two-party system. Notable publications: King's Mate (1978) External links...

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Duopoly

the politics of the Two-party system, Duverger's law... Duopoly is a form of oligopoly where only two producers are present in a given market. Modern US politics has been described as a duopoly since the Republican and Democratic Parties have dominated...

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Bipartisanship

In a two-party system (such as in the United States), bipartisan refers to any bill, act, resolution, or any other action of a political body in which both of the major political parties are in agreement. Often, compromises are called bipartisan if they reconcile the desires of both parties from...

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Duverger's law

leads to a two-party system. The discovery of this principle is attributed to Maurice Duverger, a... otherwise stable two-party systems (Riker, 1982). The converse of Duverger's Law doesn't necessarily follow, as other systems may also lead to stable two-party political systems. Malta has a single...

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Party system

primary legislative assembly (for example general elections usually results in a two-party system... because all other parties are banned two-party system - when only two parties can realistically compete... A party system is a concept in political science concerning the system of government in a state...

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Hobson's choice

-party system, like that of the United States, is Hobson's choice. They believe that two candidates typically have far more similarities than dissimilarities, and that in fact the two-party system... horses were being overworked. He decided to go in for a rotation system placing the well-rested horses...

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Multi-party system

toward a two-party system , in which only two parties have a real chance of electing their candidates to... without implications. A two-party system requires voters to align themselves in large blocs, sometimes so... A multi-party system is a type of party system. Unlike a single-party system, it encourages the...

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New Democratic Party (Nova Scotia)

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Floor Leaders

Senate. In the United States Senate two-party system, the floor leaders are the spokesmen from both major parties, elected by their parties. They also serve essentially as executives of their parties... by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and...

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