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Third parties have been, and continue to be, part of our political culture. To understand the two-party system, we need to know the roles which these third parties play They are important because they have become fairly frequent phenomena, because they reveal the vulnerabilities of the two major parties, and because they can influence the results of elections and the direction of public policy Rather than criticize them, we should understand their contribution to the dynamism of our politics. And finally, studying them can help us understand how and why the two party system has survived as long as it has.
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See the excellent review of those parties in Steven J. Rosenstone, Roy L. Behr, and Edward H. Lazarus, Third Parties in America (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984 or 1996).
Ibid.
Ibid., 231–73, for a thorough review of Perot’s 1992 campaign.
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Eldersveld, S.J., Walton, H. (2000). Third Parties in American Politics. In: Political Parties in American Society. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-11290-3_4
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