NationStates Jolt Archive

I think a multi-party democracy is the best practical form of government. What do you think?

Best practical form of modern government in practice, yes.

I think if every person that ran was in the same party it would solve the problem of the people who just vote cause it says republican or democrat. That way it would focus more on the issues.

Ban all voting completely. The masses know nothing, anyway.

Get rid of all political parties.

In Canada we have 4 or 5 major political parties depending on how you define major.

Well, I worry that the nation stays divided. I mean, look how badly we (America) divide ourselves just by classifying ourselves as Democrats or Republicans. Branch off a few more political parties and you get every man for himself.

Thing is, one party systems are just retarded. Too many ideas and opinions.

Ban political parties. The people can decide what they want.

Voted single party--it was the closest thing to having no political parties.

in england we have multi party and im happy enough with that.

If I can generalise, I'd say multi-party govts. are more democratic but less stable (Italy, the Netherlands,...) where two-party govts. are more stable but less democratic (U.S., U.K.).

I am still in favour of multi-party govternments.

If I can generalise, I'd say multi-party govts. are more democratic but less stable (Italy, the Netherlands,...) where two-party govts. are more stable but less democratic (U.S., U.K.).

I am still in favour of multi-party govternments.

Multi-party governmnets are not always less stable. In fact sometimes they are too stable and it stifles the process. In Switzerland for example there are four parties in government, which means there are only a handful of politicians in opposition! Thankfully for hte Swiss they are an extremely well educated population and get to vote on everything in referenda anyway, but debate can be stifled when the parties get too cosy.

Im drunk...and tired...

So all I can think of to say is that you cant have a two party system for very long..

It seems like if you only have two sides to an issue that comes up, then you have one entire half of the nation not happy about how your nation deals with it.

A demonstration of this would be Iraq.

"A house divided against itself, cannot stand."
-Abraham Lincoln.

Ban political parties. The people can decide what they want.

but how would you ban parties so that it wasn't merely a ban on calling your-group-of-like-minded-individuals-who-vote-together-on-most-things-and-work-to-help-each-other-get-elected
a 'party'?

Australia does not have a party system. The Prime Minister is 'the member of parliament who can best control the largest number of members.' He does NOT necesarily need to be a member of the party with the majority votes, but he always is becoz its easier. Too many parties is bad, one party is bad. A country must have one party in power and one party in opposition playing devils advocate to everything the power party says.

It encourages debate giving (hopefully) better results unless the opposition fall asleep.

Ban all voting completely. The masses know nothing, anyway.

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Multi. And for future reference Canada does not have multiple parties. It has one (been in charge for 11 years and 4 elections, have 3 more coming before next election, and will likely win the next one in 2007).