An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.
The arrangement gives an edge to the larger parties and will likely result in a two-party system.
How does the Electoral College affect the political strength of the two-party system in the United States?
The College undergirds the two-party system with its state-by-state, winner-take-all approach, which, in turn, helps preserve national unity.
The old two-party system is dead, says Spiros Makrigiannis, a shopkeeper in Anavra.
The balance of power in women's basketball, once a two-party system with Connecticut and Tennessee, had begun to shift recently.
The case for Americans Elect is a polarizing two-party system that stymies debate and chokes choice that quashes voter involvement.
But the Italian election results offer a glimmer of hope for more of a two-party system, at least for a while.
Although they tend to favor Republicans, the Tea Party has problems with both political parties and the two-party system in general.
The two-party system was undreamt of by the founders of the Republic.
The question that has plagued Liberals for more than half a century is how a third party can break open a two-party system.
The two-party system is a boon for America when it is seen as providing a voice for two parts of a unified whole.
The Radical party, the non-Peronist pole of a two-party system since 1945, has all but disappeared: its official candidate won just 2% of the vote.
Left out of the two-party system, libertarians must examine all issues.
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Despite the emergence of the centrist contender Francois Bayrou as a third force at the presidential election, the parliamentary vote largely confirmed the two-party system.
Some have argued the commission unfairly favors the current two-party system.
His party has dented the two-party system long dominated by the Pakistan Muslim League-N and the outgoing Pakistan People's Party and could steal votes from both.
But the internet, for all its leveling, is obviously not enough to shake the pillars of the status quo, or to break the entrenched two-party system.
If it works, he says, the two-party system that can usually be relied upon to reach some kind of compromise might once again be allowed to function.
Worse, we are locked (due to the winner-take-all nature of our elections) into a two-party system, so that removes a lot of nuance from the equation and leads to inefficiencies.
It replaced a supposedly neutral caretaker government that, under Bangladesh's fraught two-party system, normally takes over for three months at the end of a government's five-year term to oversee fair elections.
Thus something resembling a two-party system may be emerging.
Since the start of the modern two-party system in the mid-19th century, the party of an incumbent president has never captured control of the House from the other party in a midterm election.
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Democracy is changing before our eyes - more elected posts, more voting systems, more choice as the two-party system continues to break down and, above all other things - more unpredictable than ever.
As outside-the-establishment movements like the tea party, Occupy Wall Street and Ron Paul followers are showing, the two-party system isn't big enough to absorb the concerns and passions of hundreds of thousands of grass-roots activists.
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Mr. Najib replaced former leader Mr. Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
This kind of platform has wide appeal and he could reach his target of 5% of the popular vote, says Nielson, who wants people to back his man in protest at the dominance of the two-party system.
Mr. Najib himself replaced former leader Abdullah Badawi in 2009 after the opposition broke the National Front's comfortable two-thirds majority in the 2008 polls, turning Malaysia into a genuine two-party system for the first time in its history.
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