Of course, the extent to which an electoral system favors large parties – by having high popular-vote thresholds to enter parliament, or through winner-take-all constituencies – affects the degree of political fragmentation. But, by and large, the developed democracies are characterized by competition between large parties on the center left and center right.
华盛顿—在大部分发达民主国家，都是一个中右翼大党和一个中左翼大党在竞争。当然，选举制度有利于大党的程度——通过议会普选高门槛，或通过选区赢者通吃制——影响着政治碎片化的程度。但是，总的来说，发达民主国家的特征是中左翼大党和中右翼大党竞争。那么，像意大利广受尊进的技术官僚型总理蒙蒂这样的真正中间派能做些什么呢？