Corruption corrodes public confidence in a political system.

腐败可削弱公众对政治制度的信心。

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Ochlocracy is a political system in which a mob is the source of control.

暴民政治是一种以暴民为控制源的政治制度。

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Yet Mr Koizumi paid mostly only lip-service to the idea of smashing the post-war system in which LDP factions had monopolised—and more recently paralysed—political decisions.

不过，他声称要粉碎战后自民党的垄断体系，只是动嘴皮子功夫罢了。

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In the American political system, whoever wins the most popular votes in a state usually gets all the electoral votes of that state.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

That's why all these arguments that we all get into these days about third-party political candidates what do we really need in our political culture, what would break apart the stagnation of our two-party system, if that's what people want or put more directly, will Michael Bloomberg run or not?

这就是我们今天为何面对这些争论,关于第三方党派的候选人,也就是我们的政治文化中究竟需要什么,什么能打破我们两党制停滞不前的现状呢,如果这是人民所愿,或者更直接的说,迈克尔.布隆伯格的做法行得通吗

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" ...such as relatively low levels of malaria risk to start with, political stability, a good health system and low levels of population movement bringing in infections from elsewhere."

VOA: special.2010.11.03

It seems improbable that such sweeping changes in the economic system would not be somehow reflected in the political system.

CNN: Now The Hard Part

The liberal conversation has exactly the same limits: the impulse to see conservative causes as payoffs to interest groups and conservative political successes as demonstrations of structural flaws in the political system is well-nigh irresistible.

NEWYORKER: Evening the Odds

It was also the result of weaknesses in our political system, because for decades, too many in Washington put off the hard decisions.

WHITEHOUSE: Job Creation and Economic Growth