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Party system fragmentation is incompatible with our electoral system

Terry, Chris (2015) Party system fragmentation is incompatible with our electoral system. British Politics and Policy at LSE (26 Jan 2015). Website.

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Abstract

The 2010 general election was notable in multiple respects, and will be recorded by history as the election which saw Britain’s first post-war coalition government. Yet, perhaps just as notable is the breaking of the record for the vote won by ‘other’ parties outside the big three of Labour, Conservatives and Liberal Democrats. In this post, Chris Terry argues that this fragmentation of the party system is incompatible with the UK’s first-past-the-post electoral system.

Item Type: Online resource (Website)
Official URL: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy
Additional Information: © 2015 The Author(s) CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Divisions: LSE
Subjects: J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Date Deposited: 03 Apr 2017 09:36
Last Modified: 15 Sep 2023 19:56
URI: http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/72039

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