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This is not working. A few decades later the biggest party is like 50% of the politicians. My theory is that power accumulates like money so you end up having
by yard2010 1y ago
This is not working. A few decades later the biggest party is like 50% of the politicians.
My theory is that power accumulates like money so you end up having few people with all the power. It's not that original, I must've read it somewhere.
- BDPW 1y agoDenmark, Sweden and Netherlands have the same system and it works reasonably well actually.
- joncrocks 1y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duverger%27s_law - in political systems with single-member districts and the first-past-the-post voting system, only two powerful political parties tend to control power.
- 3acctforcom 1y agoIn parliamentary systems we see fractures and reformation all the time, including in the current political climate in the UK. Duverger's Law is only really parroted by Americans, who's ballot access and districting is determined by a coalition of two political parties instead of an constitutionally defined apolitical government institution. Don't forget to vote Green or Libertarian! Oh wait, you can't because the dems and repubs struck them from the ballot :(
- pmontra 1y agoItaly, Germany, France demonstrate that this is not the case. Edit: Spain too. Probably every single European country except the UK.