Completion of an independent third party examination and assessment of the appropriateness of Senator Duffy’s travel and living allowance expense claims from April 1, 2011 to September 30, 2012, more specifically:…
In their most recent general election the 3rd parties of Britain and America experienced significantly different outcomes. While the Liberal Democrats are now in a coalition the American Libertarian party received 0.99% of the popular vote. The clear failure of 3rd parties to break the monopoly of power held by the Democrats and Republicans can be explained by the electoral system, costs involved and influence of the media.…
Why does the United States only have two principal political parties? What role can 3rd parties play?…
• What is a third party and what role do they have in American government?…
While most of the country was tied up with the competition going on during the 2012 Presidential Election between the Democrat and Republican Presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, many other Americans were rooting for the underdogs. The gap between Romney and Obama in the popular vote was more significant than you'd think. Growing support for third party candidates don't have the major political parties worried, but evidence shows that they should think about gearing up for competition in future Presidential elections. With Gary Johnson, Libertarian Party 2012 Presidential candidate, ahead in the national popular vote amongst the third parties and the Green Party holding the majority of offices as compared to other third parties, the mainstream parties may have to begin gearing up against growing and very real additional competition.…
Political parties rose to prominence while others faded into history, but gradually the Republican Party and the Democratic Party rose to occupy the two positions within the party system of the United States all the way into the contemporary era. However, while a two-party system is designed to discourage the rise of alternative third parties, there have been occasions where third parties have risen to challenge the Republicans and Democrats for one of their positions within the political system (Jackson, J. S., 2015). The range of successes of the third party challengers of Republican and Democrat hegemony has varied greatly with some parties managing to secure office in local offices, others having members of their party within the national government, and others managing to split either the voter base of the dominant parties such as in the election of…
It is possible for a new, third political party to succeed in the American political system, however it is difficult. Third party candidates have to get thousands of signatures on petitions to become listed on the ballot. Also, third-party candidates face financial issues because a party must have received at least five percent of the vote in the previous election to qualify for federal funds. Third parties can hope to attain attention for things they feel passionately about. Third parties appeal to people through…
such political parties would dilute the two-party obsession and pay credit to the efforts of remaining…
Jonathan Safran Foer once quoted “I see myself as someone who makes things. Definitions have never done anything but constrain”. This quote carries weight among not only among communities but also the younger generations as new definitions are constantly being changed. As a definition changes, it can open new doors for interpretations as well as close doors for creation among a generation that thrives to make a change. One particular example of this is the word libertarian, a word that may need calling upon to change its definition from the one it was given over fifty years ago.…
The United states in the twenty-first century is mainly a two-party system. Despite the fact that more than two political parties remain, numerous of American citizens favor to choose between the two big factions, now called Democrats and Republicans, exchanged principle, focuses, beliefs, and delegates innumerable periods in American history.…
Michael M. Uhlmann, government professor at the university of Clairemont, explains the benefits the Electoral College has to offer. He claims that the if the Electoral College were to ever be abolished, terrible consequences would follow. If abolished, the two-party system would disappear and a drastic growth in factional parties will arise. Without the two party system, Uhlmann believes that, candidates would not have a center to work toward. He argues that the two-party system “forces the ambitions of presidential candidates into the same constitutional mold that defines and tempers American political life as a whole” (Uhlmann, 2008). This system makes for a more equitable…
Since the birth of America’s two party system third party candidates have tried to run without being a Republican and Democrat, and none have succeeded. Some had little influence in the elections outcome and some have change the outcome. America’s two party…
Historically, Republican and Democrat candidates have been known to ignore important issues and slide to the center for popular votes. In my opinion, there are two semi-viable third-party groups, and still have little hope of winning a general election. On…
The emergence of the second party system in the United States is a dynamic piece of our political history. This term was used as a way of stating the political party systems during the time period of the early/middle 1800’s. Due to separate views and rapidly rising voting interest, this is where the United States ultimately split into the Democratic and Whig Party. Although both parties were still growing at the time, both devised many major philosophies and had very important political figures as their leader.…
But the poll conducted by Gallup recently on the necessity of the third party showed quite different result. According to the poll, 46% of Americans thought that a third major party was needed and 45% of Americans replied that a third major party was not needed. This result is a big surprise to me. Because the United States has maintained the relatively successful and stable…