Global Strategic Structure - Speculative

[Robert Hettinga]

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

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