Abstract
The United States has a unique party system. We call it a two-party system. By this we mean a party system in which only two parties share political power; that is, only two parties participate in the actual governing process. Third parties, or minor parties, exist from time to time, and people do vote for them, but it is extremely rare that they get enough votes to secure a seat in Congress, and of course they do not win the presidency. This is quite different from the multiparty systems of countries such as France, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, and Scandinavia. In these countries, many more than two parties secure seats in their parliaments. For example, in Germany today six parties hold seats in their Bundestag; this number is usually the case also for Sweden and France, while twelve parties sit in the Dutch parliament. Even Great Britain, which many still see as a country with a “two-party system,” as in the past, today has eleven parties with seats in the House of Commons. There are practically no systems today that are genuinely “two-party,” as the U.S. system is.
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