Talk:Minority government

From Citizendium
Revision as of 13:45, 19 July 2009 by imported>Howard C. Berkowitz (→‎Two party system: new section)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
Main Article
Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
 
To learn how to update the categories for this article, see here. To update categories, edit the metadata template.
 Definition Parliamentary government in which the governing party has fewer votes than the parties of the opposition. [d] [e]
Checklist and Archives
 Workgroup category politics [Please add or review categories]
 Talk Archive none  English language variant Canadian English

Two party system

Especially in a non-parliamentary system, two party systems would not be expected to have minority governments. What, however, is the situation when there is a complex system such as the U.S. Electoral College, and the elected official has fewer popular votes than the loser? Howard C. Berkowitz 18:45, 19 July 2009 (UTC)