| We may see the gradual erosion of the two-party system and an enormous fracturing of the vote over the next couple of decades. |
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| The elections of the 1990s and 2000 have been a time of challenges to the viability of America's venerable two-party system. |
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| During the 18th century this idea waned and finally disappeared as the two-party system developed. |
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| To address these concerns satisfactorily, the political process in Sudan must move beyond the two-party system currently in place. |
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| Some scholars have suggested that the persistence of the two-party system may be the result of a basic duality of individual attitudes in a society that is united in its basic concepts about government. |
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| It most closely resembles an unholy alliance between the two major groups in Parliament to create a two-party system. |
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| It opposed a break by the newly formed industrial union movement from the capitalist two-party system through the formation of a labor party. |
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| But I happen to be a great devotee of and admirer of the two-party system in this country. |
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| It is the classic adversary system which overlaps with a two-party system, and the arguments and votes are often predictable. |
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| By imposing a degree of moderation on American politics, the two-party system has been a major factor in the country's stability. |
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| But over time, the Electoral College has strengthened the two-party system of Democrats and Republicans. |
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| On the other hand, countries with a two-party system can experience low turnout if large numbers of potential voters perceive little real difference between the main parties. |
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| This approach lights up the representational premises on which the two-party system is grounded and the subsequent distribution of authority and access to which they lead. |
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| The US party system is a loose confederation of parties drawn into a nominal two-party system. |
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| The political straitjacket of the two-party system that has confined the American working class is objectively finished. |
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| Because minor parties wield very little power in the United States, the two-party system contributes to the centralization of authority. |
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| The first is that, to a large degree, race is already baked in to the two-party system. |
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| In 2006, Friedman criticized the two-party system as corrupt and ineffective. |
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| Which means that in the United States, people can vent their anger within the two-party system rather than against it. |
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| More than 80 percent said there were problems with the two-party system, and 31 percent wanted to see a third party emerge. |
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| Allowing us to vote every 4 years in a pretty much two-party system is just the easiest way to make us think that we are living in a democracy. |
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| The two-party system in Britain meant that the cabinet could speak for the elected majority. |
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| The liberal and conservative parties stopped fighting in 1958 and agreed to share power while joining forces to annihilate all opposition to their two-party system. |
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| The existing two-party system, whose personnel are utterly dependent on the financial support of the plutocracy, is thoroughly unrepresentative of the general population. |
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| His final cause was to end the two-party system, which he believed stifled real choice. |
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| That would result in a shift towards a two-party system, and that cannot be democratic. |
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| A two-party system was only reintroduced there in 2005 after 20 years of a single-party republican regime. |
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| Pakistan has been evolving towards a two-party system, at least since the 1993 general elections. |
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| Another reason is they are just exasperated by the two-party system. |
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| Without the two-party system this would not happen. |
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| Due to the breakdown of the two-party system and the advances made by the Frente Amplio, a party with socialist origins, fears of the military have increased. |
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| In addition to these two intended consequences, the Electoral College today has taken on another role not envisioned by the framers, as a bulwark supporting the two-party system in the United States. |
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| To him the December 8 election heralds major changes in Quebec politics, even though it also means a return to a two-party system and thus some stability. |
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| Prince Edward Island has the purest two-party system in Canada. |
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| The United States has followed a two-party system since the Civil War in the mid-19th century, when the Democrats and Republicans coalesced into separate major political parties that control national elections. |
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| But there are many signs of public disaffection with the two-party system. |
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| And I cannot abide the two-party system, so I'll be voting Lib Dem. |
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| Who says he didn't? If this fragmentation is everywhere enfeebling to governments, in Britain with its traditional two-party system, majoritarianism and, at the apex, all-powerful prime minister the effect is traumatic. |
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| These were the standout issues for me: Many people were frustrated with the two-party system, and at a conversation at McGowan's table a man said he had come to find out how to hasten its demise. |
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| And such change faces resistance from small states, which have disproportionate representation in the Electoral College, from supporters of a two-party system, and from supporters of a federal system of government. |
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| Some critics of the present system might point to this as a negative feature of U. S. politics, but the two-party system has served the United States well. |
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| What I'm committed to try and change is the clapped-out, two-party system. |
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| However, prospects for strengthening the two-party system are strong. |
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| I think it partly has to do with specific incentives for different businesses, but part of it is due to political dynamics created by America's two-party system and our penchant for Manichaean thinking. |
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| Others lamented the rigidity of the two-party system. |
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| Gaining strength at both the federal and provincial levels, the CCF succeeded in permanently disrupting the two-party system and seriously threatening the power structure. |
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| Disenfranchised groups can make a huge difference by ending our support of the status-quo, two-party system that disenfranchises us and the candidates who betray us. |
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