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Political Systems: Duopoly of Parties in the American Government

DUOPOLY OF PARTIES IN THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT

Introduction

Political parties play an important role in governing a nation According to George Washington , the first president of the United States , politics parties are supposed to serve to organize faction , to give it an artificial and extraordinary force to put , in the place of a delegated will of the nation , the will of a party . to make the public administration the mirror of the ill concerted and incongruous project of faction , rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common

counsels , and modified by mutual interest (Gaking 2008 . This could be taken as statement that helped to lay foundation for political parties in this great nation but this has been greatly eroded by the duopoly party system of our nation as we stand today

Duopoly of American political parties

Duopoly is a state in which there are two main sides or parties running and opposing the others . In a duopoly state , two major parties compete against the other and there is a high probability of collusion between the parties . The modern American system has been described as duopoly since it is dominated by the Republican and the Democratic Party . The two parties have dominated the political scene and have framed major polices and other matters of public discourses . For more than one and a half century the entry of a third party has been contoured with many obstacles more so when it comes to getting the support from the...

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