Analysis For The Crisis Of Duverger’s Law

The result of British parliamentary election in2010is the fail of The Labour Party and a coalition government comprised by The Conservative Party and The Liberal Democrats,breaking the Two-party System in Britain.This special phenomenon has seriously challenged a unshakable law of Political Science—Duverger’s Law,which says Relative Majority Electoral System tend to lead to Two-party System.According to this article,the causes of the election’s result consist of both internal one and external ones.Internal cause refers to a kind of inherent tensile force between Relative Majority Electoral System and Two-party System,in other words,the logic defect of Duverger’s Law,which is the the root cause of the result of British parliamentary election in2010;external causes refer to some stimulative factors,which include the combined action of Party Convergence and Policy Vote,political crisis caused by economic crisis,media-oriented politics,boring emotion to Pendulum Politics,etc.In a word,the special result of British parliamentary election in2010is a magnified product of the internal cause,which has been influenced by external ones.