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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: haqihana who wrote (751563)	10/12/2006 10:07:19 AM
From: 49thMIMOMander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"How many parties" Three major parties, 3-5 minor parties plus 3-4 parties which either do not get a seat or cannot keep their support for more than a couple of elections. Typically - left-center-right (the center party is crucial) - extreme left and right, green, etc smaller parties - and then some more odd, usually temporarily existing parties. Note the crucial existence of a center party which makes it possible to either include or to not include the more extreme parties in a majority coalition. That is, the small extreme parties cannot swing a tight 50-50% balance like in two-party and two-block systems. Instead, the extreme parties can exist as independent organisations, with or without actual power, depending on if they can cooperate with others or not. At the same time the more extreme parties can be kept separated from the major parties, something both mostly benefit from. This is called a center-based multi-party system, what all less developed political systems attempt to achieve. If you need to call that a one-party system, it is your free right to do so.