Yes and no. Like most things in life it has upsides and downsides. Good is that it forces winners of elections still to compromise on their plan and show an ability to work together for the common good creating a broader basis of support in the population for government policies. A downside, seen in many countries where you usually have coalition governments, is that voters can get the impression after voting for a big winner and seeing them compromise, sometimes even with that party they voted against, that it doesn't really matter what they vote anyway or that they were betrayed. In a system of coalition government everyone has to compromise, even the biggest winner can never completely carry out the platform they ran on and that can be disappointing leaving voters frustrated. In the worst case scenario frustrated voters can loose faith in Democracy all together
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Yes and no. Like most things in life it has upsides and downsides. Good is that it forces winners of elections still to compromise on their plan and show an ability to work together for the common good creating a broader basis of support in the population for government policies. A downside, seen in many countries where you usually have coalition governments, is that voters can get the impression after voting for a big winner and seeing them compromise, sometimes even with that party they voted against, that it doesn't really matter what they vote anyway or that they were betrayed. In a system of coalition government everyone has to compromise, even the biggest winner can never completely carry out the platform they ran on and that can be disappointing leaving voters frustrated. In the worst case scenario frustrated voters can loose faith in Democracy all together