two-party system

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system
noun
uk /ˈsɪs.təm/ us /ˈsɪs.təm/
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Examples of two-party system

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In summary, whereas a two-partysystem is sustained in most regions and elections, fluctuations are found in others in regard to fragmentation and concentration.
Most conducive to stable democratic governance, according to conventional wisdom, is a two-partysystem.
Designed to institutionalise a two-partysystem, the pact produced major amendments to the constitution and the electoral law.
Is there also movement toward a two-partysystem at the national level?
The new system may never reach anything resembling a pure two-partysystem.
This paper examines the country's emerging two-partysystem as an essential feature affecting prospects for democratic deepening and consolidation.
In both cases the authors of the proposed legislation could be regarded as being towards the fringes of the two-partysystem.
Likewise, the two-partysystem and enfeebled trade unions reduce counter-framing from the far-left.
In fact, we have seen no consistent trends either towards or away from a two-partysystem since political reform was enacted.
Many reformers expected the new electoral system featuring single-member districts to bring about an evolution towards a two-partysystem with regular alternation in power.
An important finding is that the two-partysystem has been strengthened or weakened according to regional concentration and time.
As the two-partysystem develops, we should expect to find greater competition in the single-member districts and preliminary analysis indicates that to be the case.
We may expect there to have been meaningful changes in party strengths, even though the contour of a two-partysystem is sustained.
Though there are still too few cases to be confident, a two-partysystem in two-member districts may well produce non-competitive races.
Since 1996 general elections use a system based primarily on single-member districts, which is fostering a two-partysystem.
At the lower extreme of a two-partysystem, unidimensionality is true by definition.
The emergence of a two-partysystem affected each type of election differently.
The two-partysystem and disempowered unions have removed a significant source of counter-framing from actors further to the left.
An incipient two-partysystem consolidated itself further.
Unidimensional political competition has a majority-rule outcome at the position favoured by the median voter, and pragmatic parties in a two-partysystem should converge towards this position.
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