On Nov 3, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Raph Frank wrote:
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Juho <[email protected]> wrote:
If one really wants a two-party system and doesn't want voters to
change
that fact then one could ban third parties and accept only two.
That would
solve the spoiler problem :-).
What about a 2 stage process. Ask voters to vote "What party is your
favourite party?".
Only the top-2 parties are then allowed to run candidates for the
main election.
Yes, that works in the sense that it would make it easier to change
the leading parties. Looks like a special version of Top Two Runoff.
You could use Asset voting to decide on the 2 parties if they don't
manage to more than 1/3 of the vote each.
Each "party" might end up being a coalition of parties.
The two parties of a two-party system can be seen to be coalitions of
"left" and "right" wing people. I think organizations have a general
tendency to become centrally coordinated (that is in the interest of
the leaders and people working for the organization) and therefore
time might unify the parties of the coalition and collect them under
one umbrella.
Juho
In principle each district could have its own two
parties that are independent of what the two parties are in other
districts.
There is however some tendency to end up with two or small number
of parties
nation wide.
This is seen in Canada with the Quebec party.
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