I am sure you are familiar with the concept of "the tyranny of the majority"
Something a pure majority system, or two-party system would lead to, the majority
takes total control. (includes interpreting the constitution)
As well as familiar with how the US system avoids that, through
congress-senate-president, hopefully not all from the same majority, might
happen by mistake.
And in terms of 2-party systems, simple majority rules, and swing votes,
the concept of "the tyranny of the (swingvote) minority"
To connect back to the 5-95% limits, consider that most systems now has
a political, decision making system based on
- consensus
- thresholds of about 3-5% for parties, proportionally represented in congress, participting
in the consensus decisions.
Ilmarinen
Not that I wish that on US, for many reasons.
But was interesting noting how the talibans referred to "consensus", as afghanistan clearly is
neither a "one-party" nor "2-party" system.
Btw, to make a quick test, how many nations have a party system based on mainly
two parties??
Why does many knowledgable americans, from their 2-party system background, think that the
UK system is (was, it is changing) even worse.
That is, just to give a quick comment on the why I write what I write, wthout writing too much. |
