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Posted by Dan Eckam Posted on January 14, 2022 1 Comment on The Filibuster is a Lousy Way to Accomplish a Reasonable Goal
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Yesterday, Senator Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) caused a lot of heads to spin when she announced that she would not support altering the filibuster in order to pass voting rights legislation. One prominent columnist tweeted that she was “effectively asking the…
Posted by Dan Eckam Posted on September 5, 2017
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Tagged new zealand, party system, political parties
To take a diagrammatic look at New Zealand’s history of political parties is interesting not only from a historical perspective, but also in order to study the effect of electoral systems on party systems. In 1994, the country voted to change…