Or maybe it’s bullshit, designed to scare people into voting for bad candidates.
Even Duverger himself did not consider it some universal law, merely as a statistical trend. A better formulation would be ‘under these conditions, a third party has difficulty forming and attracting voters, and an established party can survive longer than it should, purely based on merit’. Says the exact same thing, but cannot be misinterpreted as easily.
I mean, it doesn’t sound like we’re in disagreement then.
I tend to be touchy on the subject because of some… unrealistic positions sometimes passed around ten minutes before an election in a two-party system.
Or maybe it’s bullshit, designed to scare people into voting for bad candidates.
Even Duverger himself did not consider it some universal law, merely as a statistical trend. A better formulation would be ‘under these conditions, a third party has difficulty forming and attracting voters, and an established party can survive longer than it should, purely based on merit’. Says the exact same thing, but cannot be misinterpreted as easily.
I mean, it doesn’t sound like we’re in disagreement then.
I tend to be touchy on the subject because of some… unrealistic positions sometimes passed around ten minutes before an election in a two-party system.