INTL 3300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Authoritarianism, Corporatism, Equal Opportunity

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Intl 3300 - lecture 9: political parties, party systems, and interest groups. Dominant-party system: country contains one large political party that predominates politically: dominant party often controls legislative and executive branches, single-party: associated with authoritarianism, in which parties besides the single dominant party are banned or disallowed. China, singapore (people"s action party: dominant party: only one large political party predominates; can happen in democracies, people consistently elect the same party. Two-party system: 2 significant parties: two parties have duopoly on governing; ex. United states: 2+ party systems: 2 main parties with several smaller parties. United kingdom (labor party, conservative party, liberal democrats) Multiparty system: multiple small parties with proportional representation. Duverger"s law: plurality-rule elections (first-past-the-post/winner-take-all) structured within single-member districts tend to favor a two-party system and the double ballet majority system & proportional representation tend to favor the multiparty system: majority systems favor two-party, pr favors multi-party.

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