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How many parties would you prefer in your parliament?
2 parties 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
14.4 parties on average? 100%  100%  [ 12 ]
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iamnotaparakeet
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14 Sep 2008, 7:58 am

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14 Sep 2008, 11:47 am

I do think the 2-party system is stupid, but 14.4 may actually be too much.


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15 Sep 2008, 6:13 am

Well, where would you draw the line, we have 5 big parties in Germany and very similar comments about our system are heard as about the American one.


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15 Sep 2008, 11:18 am

Both systems are perfect. There are only problems when people are needed to implement the system.



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15 Sep 2008, 2:24 pm

I've always thought it would be nice if people could make things work without a government. That would only work in a perfect world, of course, and then probably any political system would work.
I would prefer 14 parties to the two-party US system, but I can see how problems would arise...



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15 Sep 2008, 2:26 pm

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And this basically means it has never been applied correctly rather than it cannot be applied correctly.


The same has been said of both unbridled capitalism and communism.



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17 Sep 2008, 2:36 am

Dogbrain wrote:
crackedpleasures wrote:
And this basically means it has never been applied correctly rather than it cannot be applied correctly.


The same has been said of both unbridled capitalism and communism.


Well, duh! We saw the crises of capitalism (before Keynes) and communism.


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17 Sep 2008, 8:30 am

I think the second (or third, etc) chamber's members should always be voted in, not appointed. I'm not sure if a 'republic' is that different. Fully proportional representation has its problems so does two party. The main thing is the pace of change. Maybe we could try involving more in the UK such as three main parties in the first chamber, and more in the second chamber. Whichever way it is an experiment and not something I have a strong opinion on.

I do agree that two part can become stagnent. I'm not a fan of minfesto politics in genral so would appreasate more dynimism in politics. Then again there are parties that don't want this to happen and will try to stop it at all costs.



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18 Sep 2008, 5:49 pm

There are advantages and disadvantages to a democratic/multiparty system- US, EU nations, Asian tigers such as the Republic of China (Taiwan), Japan, Singapore, ext and the authoritarian/one party system -USSR, Iran, People's Republic of China.

In a multiparty system, people have more freedoms to choose their representatives but democracy can turn into majoritarian tyranny...and sometimes the majority of people can be idiots.

But in an authoritarian system, you'd typically have less freedoms but legislation and edicts go through faster. Leaders tend to be chosen more on merit and recorded accomplishments...but corruption within the government is not as transparent since you don't have media outlets representing the opposing party (because there is none) putting their nose into private affairs.