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Originally posted by Not Me
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It's no coincidence that countries in which the voting system allows teh election of second and third-place candidates/parties, there are more parties and coalition government. I'm sure you can google for a proof, but you can also look at the evidence: You need a system that elects multiple members from the same district or gives proportional representation in order to get long-run survival of more than two parties. We don't have that, at least on the national level, so there's little way for a meaningful third party to gain a foothold and ultimately provide any representation. That was Lani Guinier's point, or at least part of one of them.
