The Path to Reform: Third Party Constraints and the Barriers to Third Party Success - A Critical Review I. ... The Co-Option of Third Party Agendas .20-22 X. ... Are the structural barriers for third party candidates created by the two-party political system removable? ... Rosenstone et al. divide the difficulties facing third parties into three categories: first, "barriers,"" such as constitutional and legal boundaries, second, "handicaps,"" such as few resources, and third, "major party strategies."" ... Riker said that Duverger's Law needs to be modified to exem...

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Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. ... The debates on the amendment of the Constitution which have been going on for sli...

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In the months leading up to the recent 2012 presidential election, there was an issue that was all over the news because of the impact that it would have at the polls. That issue was Voter ID laws--laws that are put in place by states which would require voters to show some type of identification before being allowed to cast their votes. The debate about whether or not these laws should be put in place became a heated one in this year's election. It created an uproar among U.S. citizens; some insisted that the laws were necessary to protect the integrity of the vote, while some felt that ...

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