An old-established two-party system is giving way to a far more polarising class divide.
This is ironic in a country whose politicians spent 15 years working towards a two-party system.
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The arrangement gives an edge to the larger parties and will likely result in a two-party system.
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And we live in a great country with a two-party system that requires compromise to get things done.
The basic illusion of good Greek government under the old regime of a two-party system has been exhausted.
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.
America's two-party system can't function properly if the parties are racially divided.
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.
Ever since he strode to power in 1999, over the wreckage of a moribund two-party system, the former military officer had been blessed with incompetent adversaries.
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.
The two-party system, for the most part, is a sham.
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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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