In winner take all election systems, you will always default to two parties. Best you can hope for is reforming one, or both, of the parties from within. Or maybe killing one and replacing it.
It's one of the immutable laws, one of the only ones, of social science, because it is based on a mathematical reality.
The guy with the most votes wins. Therefore, if his opposition is composed of multiple parties, he STILL wins even if the other parties get more votes than him in the aggregate.
The resulting incentive is such that "big tent" parties form.
Duverger's Law.
In winner take all election systems, you will always default to two parties. Best you can hope for is reforming one, or both, of the parties from within. Or maybe killing one and replacing it.
It's one of the immutable laws, one of the only ones, of social science, because it is based on a mathematical reality.
The guy with the most votes wins. Therefore, if his opposition is composed of multiple parties, he STILL wins even if the other parties get more votes than him in the aggregate.
The resulting incentive is such that "big tent" parties form.