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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (97706)	5/9/2003 11:35:35 PM
From: Dayuhan	Read Replies (2) of 281500

that is the nature of politics everywhere. You don't think that GOP and DNC go to great lengths to cut each other's legs? In any event, you could never have peace if any of these factions was not part of the process. Of course the GOP and DNC do the same, but imagine the chaos if instead of two parties you had six, or twelve, none with any clear ideology beyond "us in the chair". It increases the challenge by an enormous margin. The effect of party differentiation and party development on growing democracies is something I've been studying for a long time, and given any provocation I will run off on the subject at appalling length. In a nutshell, if you look at actual cases you find that party development is actually a greater determinant of success or failure of budding democracies than any othe institution or structure. The manner in which parties differentiate establishes patterns of political discourse that are very hard to uproot, and if parties differentiate primarily according to ethnic or sectarian lines, the issues that dominate discourse tend to line up the same way.

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