At 11:20 pm -0500 on 11/24/97, Jim Choate wrote:
- a binary system is stable provided each individual party is stable.
Nit: - it is hypothesized that the reason that the US has a "binary", two-"party" system is because of it's "winner-take-all" electoral system. Proportional representation yields a multiplicity of "parties" up to some multiple of the "party acceptance" threshold, as a percentage of the electorate... ;-). Cheers, Bob Hettinga ----------------- Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com), Philodox e$, 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' The e$ Home Page: http://www.shipwright.com/ Ask me about FC98 in Anguilla!: <http://www.fc98.ai/>