Re:Robert's Rules of Order (1876)
by tunesmith on Thursday July 02, 2020 @05:00PM
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If UK has FPTP, why isn't it a two-party system? I thought Duverger's Law means that its third party would die out to be more like the Green or Libertarian party in the US.
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According to this article, the US is actually one of the only countries in which that law holds: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/duvergers-law-dead...
I can't put my finger on it but there's something about US culture that leads to sharp polarisation in social, racial, religious and political spheres.