The Strong Connection between the Romanian Two-Party System and the Electoral System (1866-1914)

In the year 1866, Romania moved to a new stage of its modernisation process and both the electoral system and the party system supported this process, which had been initiated by the political and cultural elite, formerly educated in various European universities. In this article, I intend to show the relationship between the electoral system and the two-party system while studying historical facts by the aid of political science instruments. In my research, I am using a methodological approach based on critical text analysis and comparison of both primary sources (discourses, memories etc.) and specialized literature in history and in political science. However, the evolution of the two-party system permitted the appearance of a few specific features starting from not only the resemblances, but also the differences between the British and the Romanian political systems.