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Like the Great Wall or, more recently, the Three Gorges Dam on the Yangtze River it's a classic imperial project, still possible under China's one-party system.
NPR: River Has Long Reflected China's Glories, Sorrows
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He operated through a personal network of allegiances which were reinforced, until only a few years ago, by a highly centralised one-party state a system that is now largely gone.
ECONOMIST: Will he try to give Zaire a new start, or more of the same?
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Even in the official media there have been suggestions that the next stage of reform should focus more on politics (though no one has dared propose a proper multi-party system).
ECONOMIST: Asia: After the Olympics | The
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Thanks to Britain's first-past-the-post electoral system, one political party may monopolise the seats on a local authority with less than half the votes of the 30% of the electorate who turned out to vote.
ECONOMIST: Resolving Labour��s local difficulties
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One of his main aims, which Mr Zeman seems to share, is to change the electoral system to encourage a broadly two-party system to emerge, rather than the present one in which small parties tend to hold the ring.
ECONOMIST: The Czech Republic
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So the political system in Chad is not one of sort of multi-party democracy where you go out and try to win the vote of the people and serve the people.
NPR: Chad Conflict Stirs Global Response
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One component of a well-functioning patent system is clarity around what entity is the real party in interest for a particular patent.
FORBES: Microsoft Launches Patent Monitoring Service
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The problem, Iton says, is that the healthcare system is so fragmented that if one party a foundation or a government-funded program makes an investment to reduce asthma, the savings accrue to another party a private or public insurer.
FORBES: Obamacare Spurs New Thinking On Using the Market to Pay for Prevention
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The election result has confirmed the trend toward a two-coalition (if not two-party) system in Malaysia, which offers voters a clearer choice and not simply one based on ethnic affiliation.
WSJ: Michael Vatikiotis: Seeds of Change in Kuala Lumpur