POL 3133 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Party System, A.D. Vision

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POL 3133
• Professor: Jozef Orocz

Document Summary

Wednesday, september 21, 2016: two party system. Duopoly: sharing lost all political power in the us. Winner-take-all system: dominating plurality electoral systems to the disadvantage of smaller third parties. Adv: stability: more stable than multiparty systems, moderation: must appeal to the middle to win elections, so the parties tend to be moderate, ease: voters have only to decide between two parties. Dis: lack of choice, seeminglyless less democratic: % of people will always feel marginalized. Course of realignment: realignment: a major shift in the political divisions within the us, cause of realignment: new issue challenges the old party lines and splits its members, critical elections: indicating that a realignment has occurred. Critical elections do not cause realignments and a critical election is a sign, not a cause, of realignment. Gop: tea party pointed it causing politic deadlocks. Democrats: the lack of incorporating grassroots movements and political tickets.