Among the 20 leading democracies, Britain's winner-take-all plurality system is shared by only the United States and Canada, whose separation of powers and federal structures make it tolerable, and by New Zealand which suffers from the same see-saw of dogmatic minority government as Britain does.

ECONOMIST: From the archive

He added that it was possible to have "a shared system with a plurality of providers".

BBC: Northern Ireland Assembly

These discussions are linked to the role that the media plays in society as a cultural actor, the social and ideological plurality's own media system, and transparency of public information and the potential deployment of social policies, among other things relevant.

UNESCO: All Events | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

The danger to the regime, therefore, is not that all of the inchoate anti-Putin forces will engage in a temporary alliance of convenience (such a group will prove almost impossible to manage) but that a single group will present a coherent, specific, and structured alternative to the current system that is embraced by a plurality of the population.

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