According to Duverger’s law, countries with single-ballot majoritarian elections for single-member districts tend to polarize into two-party systems, wherein dueling political parties consistently dominate the political system. _______ countries with proportional-representation electoral systems tend to support multi-partyism, under which power gets distributed among many political parties. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?
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