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Two-party systems

LC control no.sh2008001908
Topical headingTwo-party systems
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Variant(s)Dual-party systems
See alsoPolitical parties
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Found inWork cat.: The tyranny of the two-party system, c2002.
A republic of parties? : debating the two-party system, c1998.
Dictionary of the social sciences, 2002: (party systems: Blondel has defined two-party systems as those in which two major parties together gain 90 percent or more of the popular vote)
The Concise Oxford dictionary of politics, 2003: (two-party systems: political systems in which only two political parties effectively compete for government office)
American political parties, 1991: p. 78 (durability of the two-party system in America; Democrats and Republicans currently exercise a virtual duopoly over electoral office)
Google search, Apr. 8, 2008 (two-party systems; dual-party systems)