major party

collocation in English

meaningsofmajorandparty

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major
adjective
uk
/ˈmeɪ.dʒər/
us
/ˈmeɪ.dʒɚ/
more important, bigger, or more serious than others of the ...
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party
noun
uk
/ˈpɑː.ti/
us
/ˈpɑːr.t̬i/
a social event at which a group of people meet to talk, eat, drink, dance, etc., often in order to celebrate a ...
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(Definition ofmajorandpartyfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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To accommodate is to compete by adopting positions closer to those of the othermajorparty.
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Yet we found no evidence supporting this speculation -majorpartysupporters exhibited no greater response instability.
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One coder coded allmajorpartyplatforms from 1844 to 1996 using these categories and methods.
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When themajorpartyorganizations met in nineteenth-century conventions, the delegates struggled over issues such as slavery in which compromise was difficult and sometimes impossible.
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In this section, we outline four considerations that motivate strategic voting: political dissatisfaction,majorpartysupport, intensity of preferences and issue proximity.
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We control for this effect in our multivariate analysis (reported below) by including a dummy variable formajorpartysupporters.
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Second, although the ticket system strengthened the hand ofmajorpartyorganizations, it also enabled political insurgents.
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Liberal parties form the most ideologically diverse of themajorpartyfamilies.
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The more second votes received by minor parties, the lower the chances that eithermajorpartywill be able to form a single-party government.
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Finally, we apply the theory to explain variations within themajorpartyfamilies.
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This suggests that voters unhappy with general government performance simply defected to the othermajorparty(as predicted by a retrospective voting model).
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According to the seminal 'parties do matter' view, the stronger themajorpartyof the right, the significantly lower will be welfare expenditure.
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