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| | In a [[single-party state]], such as [[communist China]] or [[Nazi Germany]], politics amounts to a process of rubber-stamping the decisions of a small ruling group. The [[Democrat Party]] also resembles [[communist]] countries in how they pick their leaders. | | In a [[single-party state]], such as [[communist China]] or [[Nazi Germany]], politics amounts to a process of rubber-stamping the decisions of a small ruling group. The [[Democrat Party]] also resembles [[communist]] countries in how they pick their leaders. |
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| − | In a two party political system, [[political polarization]] is "the division of a country’s entire population into two diametrically opposed political camps."<ref>[https://www.britannica.com/topic/political-polarization Political polarization - Britannica]</ref> In two party systems of political governance, political division is primarily driven by binary political ideologies and partisan political identities.<ref>DiMaggio, Paul; Evans, John; Bryson, Bethany (1 November 1996). "[https://web.archive.org/web/20160304022840/http://educ.jmu.edu/~brysonbp/pubs/PBJ.pdf Have American's Social Attitudes Become More Polarized?]" (PDF). American Journal of Sociology. 102 (3): 690–755. doi:10.1086/230995. S2CID 144020785.</ref>
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| − | [[Political science]] is the study of politics and related concepts. It is a [[social science]].
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