Question

How are political parties organized in the US? What effect does this have on the political system?

Answer 1

The effect is there can be smaller3rd parties, that can swing the election to either way. They are in sense the tie breakers.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Answer 5

Political parties in the US are organized based on varying beliefs in how the government should administrate and based upon what the party thinks the government should focus on. This means that, in general, the political system is very inefficient and divided, and ofter political parties do things merely to give themselves publicity as being better than the other parties, and not actually to help anyone. This creates problems for the general populace, the economy and various businesses.

Answer 6

The dominant effect on American political parties comes from the fact that the executive is elected separately from the legislature (in a parlaimentary system the executive is chosen by whichever side wins the legislative elections), and the Presidential election is a winner-take-all election. This means that third parties are essentially frozen out, because they have zero chance of seriously influencing government policy, or being part of a governing coalition. Essentially, they can only function as spoilers and help throw the election to either major party.

Consequently, the American political party system has, with extremely rare exception, consisted of a Ruling Party and a Loyal Opposition. Which party is which varies, of course. But the most significant distinction between American poliical parties and those in other Western democracies is the virtual absence of third parties.