1. Third Parties Campaign Finance Reform
Devurger's Law: The "Wasted Vote- and the "Spoiler Effect- .6-9 IV. ... An example of his research would be that lack of money hurt John Anderson (1980) but had no effect on Ross Perot (1992, 1996). ... According to Riker, the part of Duverger's theory indicating that plurality systems cause two-party systems is more defensible than the part that says proportional systems lead to multiparty politics. ... The barriers can be divided into two separate phenomena: the avoidance of "wasting- one's vote and avoidance of "the spoiler effect- where one's least favorite candid...
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