Even routine administrative spending could in theory affect a party's ability to campaign.

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On the theory that a united party of the right will then be matched by a united party of the left, France may therefore now be on the road to a two-party system familiar to voters in countries such as the United States, Britain, Australia, Spain or Germany.

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Instead of simply asking what another party is planning to do, game theory encourages managers to ask what is in the other's best interest.

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So I don't buy the theory that this result shows three party factions battling it out.

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Only Mr Erbakan's experience and charisma, the theory goes, could hold such a party together.

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The theory usually is that, even though such a party can be reasonably sure that its cheating would not be detected, it will, nonetheless, be deterred from doing so by the threat that other signatories will take unpalatable retaliatory steps.

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Such a theory is neither new, nor the exclusive domain of either party.

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The trouble with this theory is that some disaffected members of Mrs Ciller's party may just as easily go over to the new Islamist party.

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Yes, the judge engages in extended discourses on constitutional history and theory, quotes the Federalist papers and even mentions the events that led up to the original Tea Party.

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