1. The political election season has/is occurring.Can you take information regarding market structures to analyze political parties?Is the United Statespolitical party system a duopoly (two firms dominate the market) or a near duopoly?What characteristics used to define market structure apply to the political party system?Please keep the discussion to structure of a duopoly market andNOT political ideology, we will keep that discussion for your political science class.

2. Here are some articles which will help you understand the Democratic and Republican parties as duopolies.How much of the political alliances are controlled by the two major parties?