@idid urmum That's bogus it's just establishment "science" to keep a real party of the people from emerging. If you buy into it you're a fucking idiot.

Yodel: I don't really "buy" into it because I don't think that it's an ideal system, I'd really like some more party pluralism, but I cannot deny that I'm more pessimistic about it than either you or fcuku.

Social sciences analyze human behavior, institutions and societies that might all change considerably in just a few decades, so even if you use correct methodology, a large enough sample and a consistent model, your findings might become irrelevant in 10 or 20 years. The theoretical research on the inherent characteristics of voting systems is very lucky in this respect, because these models only need a few simple assumptions to derive some deep and insightful conclusions.

To see why first past the post voting systems almost invariably result in a two-party system, you only need one simple assumption - that people would not vote on someone if they thank

... I mean if they thought their vote might be lost. Btw. Duvenger was a French sociologist, certainly not a member of the American establishment