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Duverger's law: single-choice voting tends toward a two-party system
- macawfish 10y agoSo why isn't the American public demanding proportional representation in national elections? Especially in an election cycle as toxic as 2016? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional_representation Even in an election with all sincere voters (where strategic voting is magically prohibited), this law holds: https://www.rochester.edu/college/faculty/markfey/papers/Exit3.pdf https://www.rochester.edu/college/faculty/markfey/papers/Exi...