{"id":43682,"date":"2012-11-04T12:25:09","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T17:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=43682"},"modified":"2012-11-04T15:01:17","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T20:01:17","slug":"the-mathematics-of-electoral-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/11\/04\/the-mathematics-of-electoral-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mathematics of Two Party Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/11.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-43685\" title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/11-500x143.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/11-500x143.png 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2012\/11\/11.png 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>In this 6 1\/2 minute video,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cgpgrey.com\/\">CGP Gray<\/a>\u00a0explains how the mathematics of a one person\/one vote system inevitably leads to a two-party system that pleases almost no one.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/s7tWHJfhiyo?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Also from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cgpgrey.com\/\">CGP Gray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/05\/05\/a-case-against-the-penny\/\">A Case Against the Penny<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/08\/what-the-bleep-is-the-united-kingdom\/\">What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?!<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/29\/the-economics-of-royalty\/\">The Economics of Royalty<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/03\/the-social-construction-of-the-continents\/\">The Social Construction of the Continents<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/03\/11\/a-history-and-account-of-daylight-savings\/\">A History and Account of Daylight Savings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this 6 1\/2 minute video,\u00a0CGP Gray\u00a0explains how the mathematics of a one person\/one vote system inevitably leads to a two-party system that pleases almost no one. Also from\u00a0CGP Gray: A Case Against the Penny What the Bleep is the United Kingdom?! The Economics of Royalty The Social Construction of the Continents A History and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-43682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43682"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52467,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43682\/revisions\/52467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}