America needs a multi-party system With the November election inching closer, the Republicans and Democrats are calling all the faithful to prepare for battle. For months, the country has spectated as ...

The two-party binary is such a fundamental part of the American political system that during the 1996 elections, the Simpsons famously suggested Americans would vote for an alien from space rather ...

First-past-the-post electoral systems, like in the U.S., produce two-party systems. Proportional-representation systems, like in Europe and Latin America , produce multi-party systems. This makes ...