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This is also why America has only two large political parties.
by jarek 16y ago
This is also why America has only two large political parties.
- grayrest 16y agoThat's widely considered a side effect of the system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting_system#Effect_on_political_parties http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plurality_voting_system#Effect_...
- jarek 16y agoThat was sarcasm. As an aside, Duverger's law appears to not hold in Canada, which is FPTP (regrettably IMO) but nevertheless has seen repeated rise of major third parties (CCF/NDP, Reform/Alliance who now de facto hold power).