Government Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Party system == {{Party politics|expanded=party systems}} {{further|Political party|Party system}} Presently, most governments are administered by members of an explicitly constituted [[political party]] which coordinates the activities of associated government [[official]]s and [[candidate]]s for office. In a [[multiparty system]] of government, multiple political parties have the capacity to gain control of government offices, typically by competing in [[election]]s, although the [[effective number of parties]] may be limited. A [[majority government]] is a government by one or more [[Governing party|governing parties]] together holding an absolute majority of seats in the parliament, in contrast to a [[minority government]] in which they have only a plurality of seats and often depend on a [[confidence-and-supply]] arrangement with other parties. A [[coalition government]] is one in which multiple parties cooperate to form a government as part of a [[coalition agreement]]. In a single-party government a single party forms a government without the support of a coalition, as is typically the case with majority governments,{{sfn|Gallagher|Laver|Mair|2006}}{{sfn|Kettle|2015}} but even a minority government may consist of just one party unable to find a willing coalition partner at the moment.{{sfn|Duxbury|2021}} A state that continuously maintains a single-party government within a (nominally) multiparty system possesses a [[dominant-party system]]. In a (nondemocratic) [[one-party system]] a single [[ruling party]] has the (more-or-less) exclusive right to form the government, and the formation of other parties may be obstructed or illegal. In some cases, a government may have a [[Nonpartisanism|non-partisan system]], as is the case with [[absolute monarchy]] or [[non-partisan democracy]]. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page