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Make note of the stability of the present two political party system
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Abstract In Two Parties - Or More? The American Party System, Dr. John F. Bibby, a professor of American politics at the University of Wisconsin, and L. Sandy Maisel (1998), a professor in the department of government at Colby College, make note of the stability of the present two political party system: Each has sustained dramatic swings of fortune - landslide victories, demoralizing defeats, cliffhanger wins and losses, major splinter movements, and realignments of bases for electoral support. Despite the fluidity of voting patterns over the decades and political dislocations created by two world wars, depressions, waves of new immigrants, industrialization, urbanization, globalization, and changes in lifestyles, the Republican-Democratic two-party system endures. (p. 48) Dominating electoral politics since 1854 (Bibby & Maisel, p. 21), the two-party system has stood up to such challenges with the assistance of several American institutional arrangements, such as the single-member district system, the Electoral College, and media...
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