A popular English adage says: 'If you cannot beat them, join them.' There are various forms of political parties, namely: ideological, mass, democratic, mission, personality and broker parties, as ...

Political parties and their impact have been thorny issues in the United States since its founding: George Washington famously warned against them in his farewell address. Perhaps it’s no surprise ...

Voter turnout was significant in Tuesday’s off-year election. Democrats claimed two state governorships and California’s Proposition 50, which allows the state to redistrict to net more Democrats in ...

The United States has two major political parties today, the Democrats and Republicans, but the Constitution never actually says the country must have two. The system developed over time because of ...

America’s two-party system isn’t an accident — it is a direct result of our electoral structure. The political scientist Lee Drutman tells the Opinion columnist Ezra Klein how shifting to proportional ...