Bipolarism

Quick meaning: Bipolarism is a noun meaning (politics) The characterization and practice of politics as the struggle and balance between left-wing and right-wing powers or ideologies.

Meaning

(politics) The characterization and practice of politics as the struggle and balance between left-wing and right-wing powers or ideologies.

Example Sentences

Born after the end of the First Republic (1948–92), bipolarism had gone through different phases, but never faded away.

One of the most prominent features of Cypriot party politics is the one which is also systemic at the party system level: bipolarism – the deep social, ideological and political division between right and left.

East–West bipolarism is also associated with the “zero-sum” game (“my gain your loss”) of political-military rebalancing through military interventions or subversions in any Third World area where the adversary makes fresh inroads.

To give credibility to its separation from the PD, the ApI had to declare bipolarism a failure and once again stress the usefulness, in the present situation in Italy, of a centrist, reforming party—one whose strength relies on concrete proposals and not on ideological radicalism.

Word Forms

• bipolarisms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include bipolarization, polarity, bipartisanism, two-partyism, polarization, pluralism.

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