As a consequence of its stabilizing winner-take-all rules, the United States has maintained the same two-party system since 1860.
Since elections are won by the single candidate who garners the most votes, third party candidates have a serious disadvantage.
Because almost all seats are held by either a Republican or a Democrat, majorities within the legislature are formed easily, without the need to form cross-party coalitions in order to govern.
This pattern makes the process of drafting and voting on legislation less complicated than in other systems, since the majority party will ultimately decide what issues are brought up for a vote and, in a large number of cases, which items are passed by the Congress.
The two-party hegemony propagated by the US winner-take-all system has thus doomed even the most successful American third parties (such as the Populists of the 1890s and Progressives of the 1910s) to eventual extinction.
As a consequence of its stabilizing winner-take-all rules, the United States has maintained the same two-party system since 1860.
Since elections are won by the single candidate who garners the most votes, third party candidates have a serious disadvantage.
Because almost all seats are held by either a Republican or a Democrat, majorities within the legislature are formed easily, without the need to form cross-party coalitions in order to govern.
This pattern makes the process of drafting and voting on legislation less complicated than in other systems, since the majority party will ultimately decide what issues are brought up for a vote and, in a large number of cases, which items are passed by the Congress.
The two-party hegemony propagated by the US winner-take-all system has thus doomed even the most successful American third parties (such as the Populists of the 1890s and Progressives of the 1910s) to eventual extinction.
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