![]() Because the two major parties dominate the system, political scientists classify the United States as a two-party system, even though we have many political parties. The vast majority of congressmen since then have been either Democrats or Republicans. Since the Republican Party’s rise in the 1850s, all American presidents have been either Democrats or Republicans. ![]() ![]() ![]() Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels (1) A Two-Party System and Its Alternatives a fiction providing legitimacy and stability to political systems whose actual workings are manifestly-and inevitably-rather less than divine.” “In our view, the ideal of popular sovereignty plays much the same role in contemporary democratic ideology that the divine right of kings played in the monarchical era. Chapter 44: Why Do We Have a Two-Party System?
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